Intertwined dipolar and multipolar order in the triangular-lattice magnet TmMgGaO4

Classically ordered phases normally coupled directly to external probes but exotic multipolar phases are not straightforwardly accessible. Here the authors show that TmMgGaO4 has multipolar order that can be inferred by inelastic neutron scattering and modeled by transverse field Ising model.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yao Shen, Changle Liu, Yayuan Qin, Shoudong Shen, Yao-Dong Li, Robert Bewley, Astrid Schneidewind, Gang Chen, Jun Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12410-3