Hiroki Ueda¹, Elizabeth Skoropata¹, Max Burian¹, Victor Ukleev¹, Gerard Sylvester Perren¹, Ludmila Leroy¹, Julien Zaccaro¹, Urs Staub^1*

1 Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen-PSI, Switzerland

* Corresponding authors emails: urs.staub@psi.ch

DOI10.24435/materialscloud:mt-xv [version v1]

Publication date: Nov 10, 2022

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Hiroki Ueda, Elizabeth Skoropata, Max Burian, Victor Ukleev, Gerard Sylvester Perren, Ludmila Leroy, Julien Zaccaro, Urs Staub, Conical spin order with chiral quadrupole helix in CsCuCl₃, Materials Cloud Archive 2022.141 (2022), https://doi.org/10.24435/materialscloud:mt-xv

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Here we report a resonant x-ray diffraction (RXD) study at the Cu L₃ edge on the multichiral system CsCuCl₃, exhibiting helical magnetic order in a chiral crystal structure. RXD is a powerful technique to disentangle electronic degrees of freedom due to its sensitivity to electric monopoles (charge), magnetic dipoles (spin), and electric quadrupoles (orbital). We characterize electric quadrupole moments around Cu ascribed to the unoccupied Cu 3d orbital, whose quantization axis is off the basal plane. Detailed investigation of magnetic reflections reveals additional sinusoidal modulations along the principal axis superimposed on the reported helical structure, i.e., a longitudinal conical (helical-butterfly) structure. The out-of-plane modulations imply significant spin-orbit interaction despite S=1/2 of Cu²⁺.

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