The so-called ferroaxial transition characterized by a rotational structural distortion that breaks a mirror symmetry has gained growing interest in terms of a new class of ferroic state in crystalline materials. RbFe(MoO 4 ) 2 , which belongs to glaseritetype compounds, X (□;1) Y (□;2) [M(TO 4 ) 2 ], is one of the most representative materials showing a ferroaxial transition, i.e., ferroaxial materials. Considering a variety of glaserite-type compounds, we expect that they provide a good arena for ferroaxial materials. In this work, we explored new ferroaxial materials by formula-based screening using a regular expression search and the symmetry detection algorithm. As a result, we found that a glaserite-type compound, K 2 Zr(PO 4 ) 2 , is one of the promising candidates for ferroaxial materials. Experimentally, we demonstrate that K 2 Zr(PO 4 ) 2 shows a ferroaxial transition at about 700 K, which is well explained by ab initio phonon calculations. The ferroaxial nature of K 2 Zr(PO 4 ) 2 is further confirmed by the observation of its domain structures using a linear electrogyration effect, i.e., optical rotation in proportion to an applied electric field. Our work provides an effective approach to exploring ferroaxial materials.
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