Publication Type
Journal
Journal Name
Physical Review Letters
Publication Date
Page Number
197201
Volume
99
Abstract
The effect of the average A-site ionic radius hIRi and variance on the orbital and magnetic order in R3+-doped YVO3 was studied in Y1-xLaxVO3 and Y1-x(La0.2337Lu0.7663)xVO3 with fixed <IR>. The orbital flipping temperature T_CG increases nonlinearly with increasing R-site variance, indicating that the V-O-V bond angle is not the primary driving force stabilizing the C-type orbitally ordered phase. The suppressed thermal conductivity in the G-type orbitally ordered phase signals some remaining orbital randomness that is enhanced by t2 and et hybridization in 3T_1g site symmetry.
