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A recent physics research study conducted at the University of California Davis explores the suppression of ferroquadrupolar order in TmVO4 in a magnetic field using the transverse field Ising model. The researchers conducted nuclear magnetic resonance measurements in pure and Y-doped single crystals, revealing that the transverse field susceptibility diverges at the critical field, contrary to mean-field predictions. Additionally, evidence of quantum critical fluctuations near Tm-rich regions in Y-doped crystals suggests the presence of quantum Griffiths phases. For more information, the full research article can be accessed for free at the Frontiers in Physics website. [Extracted from the article]