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Journal Articles Physical Review Letters Year : 2015

Fluctuations and All-In–All-Out Ordering in Dipole-Octupole Nd2Zr2O7

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By means of neutron scattering and magnetization measurements down to 90 mK, we determine the magnetic ground state of the spin-ice candidate Nd2Zr2O7. We show that, despite ferromagnetic interactions, Nd2Zr2O7 undergoes a transition around 285 mK towards an all-in–all-out antiferromagnetic state, with a strongly reduced ordered magnetic moment. We establish the (H,T) phase diagram in the three directions of the applied field and reveal a metamagnetic transition around 0.1 T, associated with an unexpected shape of the magnetization curves. We propose that this behavior results from the peculiar nature of the Nd3+ doublet, a dipolar-octupolar doublet, different from the standard Kramers doublet studied to date, thus revealing the importance of multipolar correlations in the properties of pyrochlore oxides.
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hal-01229091 , version 1 (01-03-2024)

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Elsa Lhotel, Sylvain Petit, Solène Guitteny, O. Florea, Monica Ciomaga Hatnean, et al.. Fluctuations and All-In–All-Out Ordering in Dipole-Octupole Nd2Zr2O7. Physical Review Letters, 2015, 115 (19), pp.197202. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.197202⟩. ⟨hal-01229091⟩
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