A B S T R A C TThermal evolution of the Fe 2+ -Fe 3+ valence mixing in YBaFe 2 O 5 is investigated using Mössbauer spectroscopy. In this high-spin double-cell perovskite, the d 6 and d 5 Fe states differ by the single minority-spin electron which then controls all the spin-and charge-ordering transitions. Orbital occupancies can be extracted from the spectra in terms of the (2013)045127. When the remaining 7% of entropy is supplied at a subsequent transition, the mixing electron couples the two Fe atoms predominantly via their d z 2 orbitals. The valence mixing concerns more than 95% of the Fe atoms present in the crystalline solid; the rest is semiquantitatively interpreted as domain walls and antiphase boundaries formed upon cooling through the Néel and Verwey-transition temperatures, respectively.
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