Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Strongly-coupled quantum critical point in an all-in-all-out antiferromagnet

  • Yishu Wang,
  • T. F. Rosenbaum,
  • A. Palmer,
  • Y. Ren,
  • J.-W. Kim,
  • D. Mandrus,
  • Yejun Feng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05435-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The critical behavior of a continuous phase transition is determined by both symmetry and dimensionality. Wang et al. present evidence that the cubic all-in-all-out spin order in Cd2Os2O7 leads to a realization of a non-mean-field strongly-coupled quantum phase transition in three dimensions.