FIGURE 2. All forms of ferroic order under the parity operations of space and time.

From the following article:

Observation of ferrotoroidic domains

Bas B. Van Aken, Jean-Pierre Rivera, Hans Schmid & Manfred Fiebig

Nature 449, 702-705(11 October 2007)

doi:10.1038/nature06139

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For the toroidic moment, spins replace the current loops of Fig. 1.

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