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This study demonstrates a novel optical probing technique using chiral phonons to detect octupolar magnetism, an eight-pole magnetic state previously invisible to standard methods. The research establishes a potential pathway for utilizing this complex magnetic order in controllable read-write memory elements, advancing the understanding of hidden quantum states.
U of Toronto team spots quantum magnetism with eight poles, not two

U of Toronto physicists detected an “octupolar order,” a complex form of magnetism behaving as if possessing eight poles, not two.
Researchers at the University of Toronto have detected an unusual magnetic order defined by eight poles, not the typical two, using a novel method of probing atomic vibrations with light. The team identified, within a crystalline structure, a magnetic state previously difficult to observe.…
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