octupolar magnetic moments in Ce2Zr2O7 (IMAGE)

Rice University

octupolar magnetic moments in Ce2Zr2O7

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U.S. and German physicists found evidence that cerium zirconium pyrochlore crystals are “octupolar quantum spin liquids” in which octupolar magnetic moments (red and blue) contribute to fractionalized magnetism.

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A. Nevidomskyy/Rice University

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