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Competing magnetic orders and multipolar Weyl fermions in 227 pyrochlore iridates

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2021-06-30 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

Owing to comparably strong spin-orbit coupling and Hubbard interaction, iridium based 227 pyrochlore oxides harbor a rich confluence of competing magnetic orders and emergent multipolar Weyl quasiparticles. Here we show that this family of materials is predominantly susceptible toward the nucleation of electronic noncoplanar all-in all-out (AIAO) and three-in one-out (3I1O) orders, respectively transforming under the singlet A2uA_{2u} and triplet T1uT_{1u} representations, supporting octupolar and dipolar Weyl fermions, and favored by strong on-site Hubbard and nearest-neighbor ferromagnetic interaction. Furthermore, a coplanar magnetic order generically appears as an intermediate phase between them. This order transforms under the triplet T2uT_{2u} representation and also hosts octupolar Weyl fermions. With the AIAO and 3I1O phases possibly being realized in (Nd1x_{1-x}Prx_{x})2_2Ir2_2O7_7 when x=0x=0 and 1, respectively, the intervening T2uT_{2u} order can in principle be found at an intermediate doping (0<x<10<x<1) or in pressured (hydrostatic) Nd2_2Ir2_2O7_7.

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@article{arxiv.2012.10442,
  title  = {Competing magnetic orders and multipolar Weyl fermions in 227 pyrochlore iridates},
  author = {Konstantinos Ladovrechis and Tobias Meng and Bitan Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.10442},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Published version: 6 Pages, 3 Figures (Supplemental Materials: As ancillary file)