Octupolar Vortex Crystal and Toroidal Moment in Twisted Bilayer MnPSe3
Muhammad Akram1,2, Fan Yang3, Turan Birol3
1Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States.
Abstract:
Experimental detection of antiferromagnetic order in two-dimensional materials is a challenging task. Identifying multidomain antiferromagnetic textures via the current techniques is even more difficult. Therefore, we investigate the higher-order multipole moments in twisted bilayer MnPSe3. While the monolayers of MnPSe3 exhibit antiferromagnetic order, the moiré superlattices display a two-domain phase. We show that the octupolar moments M33+ and M33- are significant in this multidomain phase. In addition, when [M33+,M33-] are represented by the x and y components of a vector, the resultant pattern of these octupole moments forms vortex crystals which leads to octupolar toroidal moments, T and Tβ. T and Tβ can give rise to a magnetoelectric effect and gyrotropic birefringence that may provide indirect ways of detecting multidomain antiferromagnetic order. Our results highlight the importance of higher-order multipole moments for identification of complex spin textures in moiré magnets.
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