Spin-Hamiltonian theory of orbital near-degenerate state in tetragonal field

In this paper, a Spin-Hamiltonian theory of orbital near-degenerate state in tetragonal field is presented. For orbital doublet ²E, which is an orbital degenerate state in the cubic field and is a near-degenerate state in the tetragonal field, we obtain the cubic invariant form and the tetragonal invariant form of the Spin-Hamiltonian. In case of near-degeneracy (tetragonal splitting is very small) two additional g-factors are introduced to investigate Zeeman-splitting for tetragonal field. The two additional g-factors g_2z and g_2xy describe the magnetic interest between A_1g and B_1g states for a parallel magnetic field with z-axis and a perpendicular magnetic field with z-axis, respectively. The theory is based on the time-reversal invariant and the point-group symmetry invariant. The theoretical method can also be used for other orbital degenerate states ^2S+1Γ including and Γ=T₁ or T₂ and can be used for other point-group symmetry.