Probing octupolar hidden order via Janus impurities
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| author | Voleti, Sreekar Pradhan, Koushik Bhattacharjee, Subhro Saha-Dasgupta, Tanusri Paramekanti, Arun |
| author_facet | Voleti, Sreekar Pradhan, Koushik Bhattacharjee, Subhro Saha-Dasgupta, Tanusri Paramekanti, Arun |
| contents | Quantum materials with non-Kramers doublets are a fascinating venue to realize multipolar hidden orders. Impurity probes which break point group symmetries, such as implanted muons or substitutional impurities, split the non-Kramers degeneracy and exhibit a Janus-faced influence in such systems: they can destroy the very order they seek to probe. Here, we explore this duality in cubic osmate double perovskites which are candidates for exotic $d$-orbital octupolar order competing with quadrupolar states. Using {\it ab initio} computations, Landau theory, and Monte Carlo simulations, we show that Janus impurities induce local strain fields, nucleating quadrupolar puddles and suppressing the octupolar $T_c$. At the same time, strains mix the non-Kramers doublet with an excited magnetic triplet, creating parasitic dipole moments which directly expose the hidden octupolar order parameter. Our work unravels this Janus duality in recent impurity nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments, with important implications for uncovering hidden order in diverse multipolar materials. |
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| spellingShingle | Probing octupolar hidden order via Janus impurities Voleti, Sreekar Pradhan, Koushik Bhattacharjee, Subhro Saha-Dasgupta, Tanusri Paramekanti, Arun Strongly Correlated Electrons Other Condensed Matter Quantum materials with non-Kramers doublets are a fascinating venue to realize multipolar hidden orders. Impurity probes which break point group symmetries, such as implanted muons or substitutional impurities, split the non-Kramers degeneracy and exhibit a Janus-faced influence in such systems: they can destroy the very order they seek to probe. Here, we explore this duality in cubic osmate double perovskites which are candidates for exotic $d$-orbital octupolar order competing with quadrupolar states. Using {\it ab initio} computations, Landau theory, and Monte Carlo simulations, we show that Janus impurities induce local strain fields, nucleating quadrupolar puddles and suppressing the octupolar $T_c$. At the same time, strains mix the non-Kramers doublet with an excited magnetic triplet, creating parasitic dipole moments which directly expose the hidden octupolar order parameter. Our work unravels this Janus duality in recent impurity nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments, with important implications for uncovering hidden order in diverse multipolar materials. |
| title | Probing octupolar hidden order via Janus impurities |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons Other Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.07666 |