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Observation of antiferromagnetic order in a quasicrystal

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Nature Physics, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02858-0

Quasicrystals lack translational symmetry but display rotational order. Whether antiferromagnetic order can exist in quasicrystals has been unclear. Now, long-range antiferromagnetic order is shown in the icosahedral quasicrystal Au56In28.5Eu15.5.