Spin order due to orbital fluctuations: cubic vanadates |
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Authors: | Khaliullin G Horsch P Oleś A M |
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Affiliation: | Max-Planck-Institut für Festk?rperforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany. |
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Abstract: | We investigate the highly frustrated spin and orbital superexchange interactions in cubic vanadates. The fluctuations of t(2g) orbitals trigger a novel mechanism of ferromagnetic interactions between spins S = 1 of V3+ ions along one of the cubic directions which operates already in the absence of Hund's rule exchange J(H), and leads to the C-type antiferromagnetic phase in LaVO3. The Jahn-Teller effect can stabilize the orbital ordering and the G-type antiferromagnetic phase at low temperatures, but large entropy due to orbital fluctuations favors again the C phase at higher temperatures, as observed in YVO (3). |
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