Orbital Freezing in FeCr2S4 Studied by Dielectric Spectroscopy

R. Fichtl; P. Lunkenheimer; J. Hemberger; V. Tsurkan; A. Loidl

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.027601

Orbital Freezing in FeCr2S4 Studied by Dielectric Spectroscopy

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-10 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Authors: R. Fichtl , P. Lunkenheimer , J. Hemberger , V. Tsurkan , A. Loidl

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Broadband dielectric spectroscopy has been performed on single-crystalline FeCr2S4 revealing a transition into a low-temperature orbital glass phase and on polycrystalline FeCr2S4 where long-range orbital order is established via a cooperative Jahn-Teller transition. The freezing of the orbital moments is revealed by a clear relaxational behavior of the dielectric permittivity, which allows a unique characterization of the orbital glass transition. The orbital relaxation dynamics continuously slows down over six decades in time, before at the lowest temperatures the glass transition becomes suppressed by quantum tunneling.

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dielectric spectroscopy orbital glass FeCr2S4 Jahn-Teller transition quantum tunneling

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0404737,
  title  = {Orbital Freezing in FeCr2S4 Studied by Dielectric Spectroscopy},
  author = {R. Fichtl and P. Lunkenheimer and J. Hemberger and V. Tsurkan and A. Loidl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0404737},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Orbital Freezing in FeCr2S4 Studied by Dielectric Spectroscopy

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