NMR Investigation of Ferroquadrupolar Order in TmVO<sub>4</sub>

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Abstract

TmVO4 undergoes a tetragonal to orthorhombic structural phase transition below 2.2K due to a cooperative Jahn-Teller distortion. The Tm ions experience a crystal-field effect with a non-Kramer’s ground state doublet, and undergo ferroquadrupolar order that breaks the C4 symmetry of the lattice. This material is therefore a model system to investigate Ising nematic ordering without competing phases. While previous 51V NMR has been hampered by significant line broadening due to demagnetization fields at low temperature, here we present improved results where we are able to separate magnetic and quadrupolar relaxation channels in a single crystal of ellipsoidal shape for which this broadening is absent. These are the first NMR measurements in which an ellipsoidal sample is used that has been carefully cut by a focused ion beam (FIB).

*Work at UC Davis was supported by the NSF under Grant DMR-1807889.

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Presenters

  • Igor Vinograd

    • University of California, Davis
    • Physics, University of California, Davis
    • Laboratoire National des Champs Magnetiques Intenses

Authors

  • Igor Vinograd

    • University of California, Davis
    • Physics, University of California, Davis
    • Laboratoire National des Champs Magnetiques Intenses

  • Zhipan Wang

    • University of California, Davis

  • Kent R Shirer

    • Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187 Dresden
    • Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids

  • Andrew Mackenzie

    • Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany
    • Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
    • Max Planck Institute for the Chemical Physics of Solids

  • Daphne Garcia

    • University of California, Davis

  • Mladen Horvatić

    • LNCMI Grenoble
    • LNCMI

  • Pierre Massat

    • Stanford University

  • Ian R Fisher

    • Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University
    • Stanford Univ
    • Stanford University
    • Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University