antiferroquadrupolar

English

Etymology

From antiferro- +‎ quadrupolar.

Adjective

antiferroquadrupolar (not comparable)

1. (physics) antiferromagnetic and quadrupolar
   • 2015, T. U. Ito, W. Higemoto, A. Sakai, M. Tsujimoto, S. Nakatsuji, “Perturbation on Hyperfine-enhanced $^{141}$Pr Nuclear Spin Dynamics Associated with Antiferroquadrupolar Order in PrV$_{2}$Al$_{20}$”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     No explicit sign of time-reversal symmetry breaking was found below the multipolar order temperature $T_{Q}\sim 0.6$ K in a zero applied field as anticipated on the basis of the antiferroquadrupolar (AFQ) order picture proposed by Sakai and Nakatsuji [J.