Physical Review Letters
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Nonlinear Optical Probing of Ferroic Octupolar Order Parameter in Collinear Altermagnet
Author(s): P. A. Usachev, R. V. Pisarev, and V. V. Pavlov
Optical second harmonic generation detects ferroic octupolar order in altermagnetic CoF2, establishing nonlinear interactions as signatures of altermagnetism in experiments. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126902] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026