Ten-fold spin-orbital degeneracy in the true d-electron Hubbard model of the Mott metal-insulator transition

The ten-fold spin-orbital degeneracy of true d-electrons is included in the non-spin-orbitally degenerate Hubbard model treatment theory of the Mott metal-insulator transition of Rice and Brinkman, and Gutzwiller. The Rice-Brinkman and Kohn phase diagrams of the Mott metal-insulator transition are shown to shift due to spin-orbital degeneracy of true d-electrons so as to increase the available phase space in the temperature-“interaction” Mott phase diagram for the formation of the antiferromagnetic insulator, superlattice metal or superlattice insulator states in these phase diagrams.