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Reversed Crystal-Field Splitting and Spin-Orbital Ordering in $\alpha$-Sr$_2$CrO$_4$
- Source :
- J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 86, 033701 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The origin of successive phase transitions observed in the layered perovskite $\alpha$-Sr$_2$CrO$_4$ is studied by the density-functional-theory-based electronic structure calculation and mean-field analysis of the proposed low-energy effective model. We find that, despite the fact that the CrO$_6$ octahedron is elongated along the $c$-axis of the crystal structure, the crystal-field level of nondegenerate $3d_{xy}$ orbitals of the Cr ion is lower in energy than that of doubly degenerate $3d_{yz}$ and $3d_{xz}$ orbitals, giving rise to the orbital degrees of freedom in the system with a $3d^2$ electron configuration. We show that the higher (lower) temperature phase transition is caused by the ordering of the orbital (spin) degrees of freedom.<br />Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures; J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., in press
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 86, 033701 (2017)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1511.06217
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.86.033701