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NPJ QUANTUM MATERIALS
卷 6, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41535-021-00355-0
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- JSPS KAKENHI [JP17H02917, JP17H01143, JP18K03447, JP19H05823, JP19H05825, JP19H01847]
- MEXT Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers (LEADER)
- JST CREST [JP-MJCR18T2]
- High Field Laboratory for Superconducting Materials, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University [18H0014, 19H0009]
Chiral-lattice magnets can exhibit various physical phenomena when time-reversal symmetry is broken by their magnetism, even in antiferromagnets without magnetization. An unconventional coupling between chirality and magnetic quadrupoles was observed in a chiral-lattice antiferromagnet, mediated by previously unrecognized magnetic octupoles emerging from chirality.
Chiral-lattice magnets can exhibit a variety of physical phenomena when time-reversal symmetry is broken by their magnetism. For example, nonreciprocal responses of (quasi)particles have been widely observed in chiral-lattice magnets with macroscopic magnetization. Meanwhile, time-reversal symmetry can also be broken in antiferromagnets without magnetization. Here we report an unconventional chirality-magnetism coupling in a chiral-lattice antiferromagnet Pb(TiO)Cu-4(PO4)(4) whose time-reversal symmetry is broken by an ordering of magnetic quadrupoles. Our experiments demonstrate that a sign of magnetic quadrupoles is controllable by a magnetic field only, which is generally impossible in consideration of the symmetry of magnetic quadrupoles. Furthermore, we find that the sign of magnetic quadrupoles stabilized by applying a magnetic field is reversed by a switching of the chirality. Our theoretical calculations and phenomenological approach reveal that this unusual coupling between the chirality and magnetic quadrupoles is mediated by the previously-unrecognized magnetic octupoles that emerge due to the chirality.
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