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Spin Order due to Orbital Fluctuations: Cubic Vanadates

arXiv:cond-mat/0103300 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3879

Abstract

We investigate the highly frustrated spin and orbital superexchange interactions in cubic vanadates. The fluctuations of orbitals trigger a {\it novel mechanism of ferromagnetic interactions} between spins S=1 of V ions along one of the cubic directions which operates already in the absence of Hund's rule exchange , and leads to the C-type antiferromagnetic phase in LaVO. The Jahn-Teller effect can stabilize the orbital ordering and the G-type antiferromagnetic phase at low temperatures, but large entropy due to orbital fluctuations favors again the C-phase at higher temperatures, as observed in YVO.

4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett

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