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Role of Orbitals in the Physics of Correlated Electron Systems

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-11 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

Rich properties of systems with strongly correlated electrons, such as transition metal oxides, is largely connected with an interplay of different degrees of freedom in them: charge, spin, orbital ones, as well as crystal lattice. Specific and often very important role is played by orbital degrees of freedom. In this comment I will shortly summarize the main concepts and discuss some of the well-known manifestations of orbital degrees of freedom, but will mostly concentrate on a recent development in this field.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0508631,
  title  = {Role of Orbitals in the Physics of Correlated Electron Systems},
  author = {D. I. Khomskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0508631},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

To be published in "Comments on Solid State Physics", part of "Physica Scripta"