Four-Sublattice Chiral Ordering and Emergent Multipole Degrees of Freedom on a Triangular Lattice

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Authors: Satoru Hayami
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Abstract

Chiral magnetic orderings in itinerant magnets have recently attracted considerable attention as a source of emergent electromagnetic phenomena such as topological Hall effects and magnetoelectric couplings. In this study, we investigate emergent multipole degrees of freedom arising from chiral magnetic orderings on a two-dimensional triangular lattice. Focusing on a four-sublattice spin configuration characterized by noncoplanar spin textures, we demonstrate that various types of multipoles, such as magnetic dipoles and electric toroidal dipoles, naturally emerge even in the absence of relativistic spin–orbit coupling. By employing a microscopic tight-binding model, we classify the resulting multipole moments and clarify their relationships to the underlying chiral spin texture. We further explore how spin–orbit coupling modifies these multipole characters, leading to additional uniform responses. The results provide a unified framework connecting noncollinear magnetic orderings and emergent multipole phenomena, offering insights into unconventional cross-correlation phenomena in itinerant chiral magnets.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Magnetic properties of thin films Advanced Condensed Matter Physics Topological Materials and Phenomena

Publication details

Journal / source
Crystals
Volume
16
Issue
2
Pages
91–91
Publication date
28 January 2026
Language
EN