Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

X-ray study of ferroic octupole order producing anomalous Hall effect

  • Motoi Kimata,
  • Norimasa Sasabe,
  • Kensuke Kurita,
  • Yuichi Yamasaki,
  • Chihiro Tabata,
  • Yuichi Yokoyama,
  • Yoshinori Kotani,
  • Muhammad Ikhlas,
  • Takahiro Tomita,
  • Kenta Amemiya,
  • Hiroyuki Nojiri,
  • Satoru Nakatsuji,
  • Takashi Koretsune,
  • Hironori Nakao,
  • Taka-hisa Arima,
  • Tetsuya Nakamura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25834-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The X-ray magnetic circular dichroism detection of magnetic octupole moment has not been experimentally demonstrated so far. Here, the authors observe ferroic order of magnetic octupole in Mn3Sn, finding the exotic material functionalities related to the multipole order.