Spin-orbital Jahn-Teller bipolarons

Autor: Lorenzo Celiberti, Dario Fiore Mosca, Giuseppe Allodi, Leonid V. Pourovskii, Anna Tassetti, Paola Caterina Forino, Rong Cong, Erick Garcia, Phuong M. Tran, Roberto De Renzi, Patrick M. Woodward, Vesna F. Mitrović, Samuele Sanna, Cesare Franchini
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46621-0
Popis: Abstract Polarons and spin-orbit (SO) coupling are distinct quantum effects that play a critical role in charge transport and spin-orbitronics. Polarons originate from strong electron-phonon interaction and are ubiquitous in polarizable materials featuring electron localization, in particular 3d transition metal oxides (TMOs). On the other hand, the relativistic coupling between the spin and orbital angular momentum is notable in lattices with heavy atoms and develops in 5d TMOs, where electrons are spatially delocalized. Here we combine ab initio calculations and magnetic measurements to show that these two seemingly mutually exclusive interactions are entangled in the electron-doped SO-coupled Mott insulator Ba2Na1−xCa x OsO6 (0
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