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Nucleation and growth of orbital ordering

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  • Takuro Katsufuji

    (Waseda University
    Waseda University)

  • Tomomasa Kajita

    (Waseda University)

  • Suguru Yano

    (Waseda University)

  • Yumiko Katayama

    (University of Tokyo, Meguro)

  • Kazunori Ueno

    (University of Tokyo, Meguro)

Abstract

The dynamics of the first-order phase transitions involving a large displacement of atoms, for example, a liquid-solid transition, is generally dominated by the nucleation of the ordered phase and the growth of the nuclei, where the interfacial energy between the two phases plays an important role. On the other hand, electronic phase transitions seldom exhibit such a nucleation-growth behavior, probably because two-phase coexistence is not dominated by only the interfacial energy in such phase transitions. In the present paper, we report that the dynamics of a phase transition associated with an ordering of d orbitals in a vanadate exhibits a clear nucleation-growth behavior and that the interfacial energy between the orbital-ordered and -disordered phases dominated by the orbital-spin coupling can be experimentally obtained.

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  • Takuro Katsufuji & Tomomasa Kajita & Suguru Yano & Yumiko Katayama & Kazunori Ueno, 2020. "Nucleation and growth of orbital ordering," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 11(1), pages 1-7, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:11:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-020-16004-2
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16004-2
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