Effects of anharmonic lattice distortion on orbital and magnetic orderings in KCuF3

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    摘要 Lattice,magneticandorbitalstructuresinKCuF3areself-consistentlydeterminedbyourclusterself-consistentfieldapproachbasedonaspin-orbital-latticeHamiltonian.Twostablestructuresareobtainedandfoundtobedegenerate,whichconfirmsthepresenceofthecoexistentphasesobservedexperimentally.Weclearlyshowthatduetotheinherentfrustration,thegroundstateofthesystemonlywiththesuperexchangeinteractionisdegenerate;whiletheJahn-Tellerdistortion,especiallytheanharmoniceffect,stabilizestheorbitalorderedphaseatabout23%inthex2-y2orbitandat77%inthe3z2-r2orbit.MeanwhilethemagneticmomentofCuisconsiderablyreducedto0.56μB,andmagneticcouplingstrengthsarehighlyanisotropic,Jz/Jxy≈18.Theseresultsareingoodagreementwiththeexperiments,implyingthattheanharmonicJahn-TellereffectplaysanessentialroleinstabilisingtheorbitalorderedgroundstateofKCuF3.
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    出处 《中国物理B:英文版》 2009年10期
    出版日期 2009年10月20日(中国Betway体育网页登陆平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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