Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Quadrupolar magnetic excitations in an isotropic spin-1 antiferromagnet

  • A. Nag,
  • A. Nocera,
  • S. Agrestini,
  • M. Garcia-Fernandez,
  • A. C. Walters,
  • Sang-Wook Cheong,
  • S. Johnston,
  • Ke-Jin Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30065-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Multipolar magnetic excitations are challenging to measure as most experimental probes are sensitive to dipolar processes. Here, Nag et al. show the existence of dispersing quadrupolar components to the spin excitations in an antiferromagnet, highlighting the importance of higher order magnetic excitations.