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| author | Zhang, Xue-Jing Koch, Erik Pavarini, Eva |
| author_facet | Zhang, Xue-Jing Koch, Erik Pavarini, Eva |
| contents | The surprising inversion of the orbital- and magnetic-order transition temperatures in the RVO3 series with increasing the rare-earth radius makes the series unique among orbitally-ordered materials. Here, augmenting dynamical mean-field theory with a decomposition of the order parameter into irreducible tensors, we show that this anomalous behavior emerges from an unusual hierarchy of interactions. First, increasing the rare-earth radius, orbital physics comes to be controlled by xz-xz quadrupolar super-exchange rather than by lattice distortion. Next, for antiferromagnetic spin order, orbital super-exchange terms with different spin rank compete, so that the dipolar spin-spin interaction dominates. Eventually, G-type magnetic order (anti-ferro in all directions) can appear already above the orbital ordering transition, and C-type order (anti-ferro in the ab plane) right around it. The strict constraints we found explain why the inversion is rare, giving at the same time criteria to look for similar behavior in other materials. |
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| spellingShingle | Origin of the transitions inversion in rare-earth vanadates Zhang, Xue-Jing Koch, Erik Pavarini, Eva Strongly Correlated Electrons Materials Science The surprising inversion of the orbital- and magnetic-order transition temperatures in the RVO3 series with increasing the rare-earth radius makes the series unique among orbitally-ordered materials. Here, augmenting dynamical mean-field theory with a decomposition of the order parameter into irreducible tensors, we show that this anomalous behavior emerges from an unusual hierarchy of interactions. First, increasing the rare-earth radius, orbital physics comes to be controlled by xz-xz quadrupolar super-exchange rather than by lattice distortion. Next, for antiferromagnetic spin order, orbital super-exchange terms with different spin rank compete, so that the dipolar spin-spin interaction dominates. Eventually, G-type magnetic order (anti-ferro in all directions) can appear already above the orbital ordering transition, and C-type order (anti-ferro in the ab plane) right around it. The strict constraints we found explain why the inversion is rare, giving at the same time criteria to look for similar behavior in other materials. |
| title | Origin of the transitions inversion in rare-earth vanadates |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16351 |