Incipient Orbital Order in Half-MetallicBa2FeReO6

Autor: Eduardo Granado, J. Gopalakrishnan, C. Azimonte, Qingzhen Huang, Julio C. Cezar, Kannadka Ramesha, Jeffrey W. Lynn, J. C. P. Campoy
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Physical Review Letters. 98
ISSN: 1079-7114
0031-9007
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.98.017204
Popis: Largely unquenched Re 5d orbital magnetic moments in half-metallic $Ba_2FeReO_6$ drive a symmetry lowering transition from a cubic paramagnet to a compressed tetragonal (c/a < 1) ferrimagnet below TC\sim 305 K, with a giant linear magnetoelastic constant and the spins lying spontaneously along the unique tetragonal axis. The large orbital magnetization and degree of structural deformation indicate proximity to a metal-insulator transition. These results point to an incipient orbitally ordered state in the metallic ferrimagnetic phase.
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