Multiplet effects in orbital and spin ordering phenomena: A hybridization-expansion quantum impurity solver study

Abstract

Orbital and spin ordering phenomena in strongly correlated systems are commonly studied using the local-density approximation + dynamical mean-field theory approach. Typically, however, such simulations are restricted to simplified models (density-density Coulomb interactions, high symmetry couplings and few-band models). In this work we implement an efficient general hybridization-expansion continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo impurity solver (Krylov approach) which allows us to investigate orbital and spin ordering in a more realistic setting, including interactions that are often neglected (e.g., spin-flip and pair-hopping terms), enlarged basis sets (full d versus eg), low-symmetry distortions, and reaching the very low-temperature (experimental) regime. We use this solver to study ordering phenomena in a selection of exemplary low-symmetry transition-metal oxides: LaMnO3 and rare-earth manganites as well as the perovskites CaVO3 and YTiO3. We show that spin-flip and pair hopping terms do not affect the Kugel-Khomskii orbital-order melting transition in rare-earth manganites, or the suppression of orbital fluctuations driven by crystal field and Coulomb repulsion. For the Mott insulator YTiO3 we find a ferromagnetic transition temperature 50 K, in remarkably good agreement with experiments. For LaMnO3 we show that the classical t2g-spin approximation, commonly adopted for studying manganites, yields indeed an occupied eg orbital in very good agreement with that obtained for the full d 5-orbital Hubbard model, while the spin-spin e_g-t_{2g} correlation function calculated from the full d model is 0.74, very close to the value expected for aligned eg and t2g spins; the eg spectral function matrix is also well reproduced. Finally, we show that the t2g screening reduces the eg-eg Coulomb repulsion by about 10%

9 pages, 5 figures

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