Hidden order in URu2Si2 unveiled.

Phys Rev Lett

SPSMS, UMR-E CEA/UJF-Grenoble 1, INAC, Grenoble F-38054, France.

Published: August 2012

We report on measurements, by polarized neutron elastic scattering, of the magnetization distribution induced in a single crystal of URu2Si2 under a magnetic field applied along the tetragonal c axis. A subtle change in this distribution, revealed by maximum entropy analysis of the data, is found when the temperature is decreased to the range of the hidden order. An analysis in terms of U(4+) ionic states reveals that this change is a fingerprint of a freezing of rank 5 multipoles, i.e., dotriacontapoles.

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