Controlling ferroic orders (ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism, and ferroelasticity) by optical methods is a significant challenge due to the large mismatch in energy scales between order parameter coupling strengths and incident photons. Here, we demonstrate an approach to manipulate multiple ferroic orders in epitaxial mixed-phase BiFeO 3 thin film at ambient temperature via laser illumination. Phase-field simulations indicate that a light driven flexoelectric
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