Nanowerk  July 4, 2022 An international team of researchers (the Netherlands, Sweden) observed an unusual magnetic transition in elemental neodymium where, with increasing temperature, long-range multiply periodic ‘multi-Q’ magnetic order emerged from a self-induced spin glass. They characterized the local order of a previously reported spin glass phase and quantified the emergence of long-range multi-Q order with increasing temperature. Using the analysis tools they developed, they determined the glass transition temperature from measurements of the spatially dependent magnetization. They compared these observations with atomistic spin dynamics simulations to reproduce the qualitative observation of a phase transition from a low-temperature spin […]