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Competition between Jahn-Teller coupling and orbital fluctuations in HoVO3
Blake G.R.a, Nugroho A.A.b, Gutmann M.J., Palstra T.T.M.a
a Solid State Chemistry Laboratory, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Netherlands
b Jurusan Fisika, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
c ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory-STFC, United Kingdom
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624529070653{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner layout=”boxed”][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1624695412187{border-right-width: 1px !important;border-right-color: #dddddd !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-radius: 1px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Abstract” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]We have carried out a detailed study of the structural properties of HoVO3 perovskite using a combination of single-crystal neutron diffraction and synchrotron x-ray and neutron powder diffraction. We focus on the competition between one-dimensional fluctuations of the occupied vanadium d orbitals and coherent Jahn-Teller distortion due to long-range orbital ordering. At room temperature orbital fluctuations are dominant. Below 188 K a structural phase transition from orthorhombic Pbnm to monoclinic Pb11 symmetry takes place, corresponding to a state where strong orbital fluctuations are superimposed on an underlying orbitally ordered state. However, the fluctuations are not strong enough to give rise to a long-range orbitally dimerized state as theoretically predicted. Ordering of the vanadium spins at 114 K has little effect on the orbital fluctuations, but the orbital ordering becomes coherent below a first-order transition to an orthorhombic Pbnm phase at 40 K. © 2009 The American Physical Society.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Author keywords” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Indexed keywords” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Funding details” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”DOI” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.79.045101[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]Widget Plumx[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]