Orbital Order and Fluctuations in Mott Insulators

DOI10.1143/PTPS.160.155zbMATH Open1238.82036arXivcond-mat/0510025MaRDI QIDQ5488933FDOQ5488933

Giniyat Khaliullin

Publication date: 25 September 2006

Published in: Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Basic mechanisms controlling orbital order and orbital fluctuations in transition metal oxides are discussed. The lattice driven classical orbital picture, e.g. like in manganites LaMnO${}_3$, is contrasted to the quantum behavior of orbitals in frustrated superexchange models as realised in pseudocubic titanites ATiO${}_3$ and vanadates AVO${}_3$. In YVO${}_3$, the lattice and superexchange effects strongly compete -- this explains the extreme sensitivity of magnetic states to temperature and doping. Lifting the $t_{2g}$ orbital degeneracy by a relativistic spin-orbital coupling is considered on example of the layered cobaltates. We find that the spin-orbital mixing of low-energy states leads to unusual magnetic correlations in a triangular lattice of the CoO${}_2$ parent compound. Finally, the magnetism of sodium-rich compounds Na${}_{1-x}$CoO${}_2$ is discussed in terms of a spin/orbital polaronic liquid.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0510025

zbMATH Keywords

transition metal oxidesorbital orderorbital fluctuations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20)

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