Mun, E.D.Chern, Gia-WeiPardo, VictorRivadulla Fernández, José FranciscoSinclair, R.Zhou, HaidongZapf, VivienBatista, Cristian D.2018-07-162018-07-162014Mun, E., Chern, G., Pardo, V., Rivadulla, F., Sinclair, R., & Zhou, H. et al. (2014). Magnetic Field Induced Transition in Vanadium Spinels. Physical Review Letters, 112(1). doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.0172070031-9007http://hdl.handle.net/10347/17034We study vanadium spinels AV2O4 (A=Cd,Mg) in pulsed magnetic fields up to 65 T. A jump in magnetization at μ0H≈40 T is observed in the single-crystal MgV2O4, indicating a field induced quantum phase transition between two distinct magnetic orders. In the multiferroic CdV2O4, the field induced transition is accompanied by a suppression of the electric polarization. By modeling the magnetic properties in the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling characteristic of vanadium spinels, we show that both features of the field induced transition can be successfully explained by including the effects of the local trigonal crystal fieldeng© 2014 American Physical Societyjournal article10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.0172071079-7114open access