TY  - JOUR
AU  - Shen, Yao
AU  - Liu, Changle
AU  - Qin, Yayuan
AU  - Shen, Shoudong
AU  - Li, Yao-Dong
AU  - Bewley, Robert
AU  - Schneidewind, Astrid
AU  - Chen, Gang
AU  - Zhao, Jun
TI  - Intertwined dipolar and multipolar order in the triangular-lattice magnet TmMgGaO4
JO  - Nature Communications
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
SN  - 2041-1723
CY  - [London]
PB  - Nature Publishing Group UK
M1  - FZJ-2019-06643
SP  - 4530
PY  - 2019
AB  - A phase transition is often accompanied by the appearance of an order parameter and symmetry breaking. Certain magnetic materials exhibit exotic hidden-order phases, in which the order parameters are not directly accessible to conventional magnetic measurements. Thus, experimental identification and theoretical understanding of a hidden order are difficult. Here we combine neutron scattering and thermodynamic probes to study the newly discovered rare-earth triangular-lattice magnet TmMgGaO4. Clear magnetic Bragg peaks at K points are observed in the elastic neutron diffraction measurements. More interesting, however, is the observation of sharp and highly dispersive spin excitations that cannot be explained by a magnetic dipolar order, but instead is the direct consequence of the underlying multipolar order that is “hidden” in the neutron diffraction experiments. We demonstrate that the observed unusual spin correlations and thermodynamics can be accurately described by a transverse field Ising model on the triangular lattice with an intertwined dipolar and ferro-multipolar order.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:31594940
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000489100900001
DO  - DOI:10.1038/s41467-019-12410-3
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/868050
ER  -