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Orbital-ordering instability arising due to the intrapocket nesting is investigated for the tight-binding models of pnictides in the presence of orbital-lattice coupling. The incommensurate instabilities with small momentum, which may play…
It is shown that the time-reversal symmetry is broken during the phase transition causing orbital ordering in a crystal with Jahn-Teller (J-T) ions. This means that such phase transitions are magnetic ones. As an example we have considered…
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Recent experiments with Yb-173 and Sr-87 isotopes provide new possibilities to study high spin two-orbital systems. Within these experiments part of the atoms are excited to a higher energy metastable electronic state mimicking an…
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