Spin-Orbital Order Modified by Orbital Dilution in Transition-Metal Oxides: From Spin Defects to Frustrated Spins Polarizing Host Orbitals

We investigate the changes in spin and orbital patterns induced by magnetic transition-metal ions without an orbital degree of freedom doped in a strongly correlated insulator with spin-orbital order. In this context, we study the 3d ion substitution in 4d transition-metal oxides in the case of 3d^{...

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Main Authors: Wojciech Brzezicki, Andrzej M. Oleś, Mario Cuoco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2015-03-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.5.011037