Fractional Magnetization Plateaus and Magnetic Order in the Shastry-Sutherland Magnet TmB4

We investigate the phase diagram of TmB(4), an Ising magnet on a frustrated Shastry-Sutherland lattice, by neutron diffraction and magnetization experiments. At low temperature we find Neel order at low field, ferrimagnetic order at high field, and an intermediate phase with magnetization plateaus at fractional values M/M(sat)=1/7,1/8,1/9,... and spatial stripe structures. Using an effective S=1/2 model and its equivalent two-dimensional fermion gas we suggest that the magnetic properties of TmB(4) are related to the fractional quantum Hall effect of a 2D electron gas.