Tunable inter-bilayer magnetic correlations and candidate multipolar physics in the van der Waals oxyhalides DyOCl, DyOBr, and DyOI
Rare-earth van der Waals magnets provide a route to combining strong spin-orbit coupling, large magnetic moments, and reduced dimensionality in bulk crystals. We report a comparative study of the dysprosium oxyhalides DyOX (X = Cl, Br, I), which realize square-bilayer networks of Dy3+ moments separated by a tunable van...