2005
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.94.027601
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Orbital Freezing and Orbital Glass State inFeCr2S4

Abstract: Low-temperature specific heat measurements and dielectric spectroscopy have been performed on polycrystalline and single-crystalline FeCr2S4, the single crystals showing a transition into a low-temperature orbital glass phase. The freezing of the orbital moments is revealed by a glasslike specific heat anomaly and by a clear relaxational behavior of the dielectric permittivity, exhibiting several hallmark features of glassy dynamics. The orbital relaxation dynamics continuously slows down over six decades in t… Show more

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“…The fact that in these systems, either by frustration or by disorder, orbital order can indeed be easily suppressed, has been documented in Ref. 9, where a low-temperature orbital glass state has been identified. In FeSc 2 S 4 orbital and spin order are suppressed almost down to zero temperature and hence, it represents one of the rare examples of a spin-orbital liquid (SOL).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…The fact that in these systems, either by frustration or by disorder, orbital order can indeed be easily suppressed, has been documented in Ref. 9, where a low-temperature orbital glass state has been identified. In FeSc 2 S 4 orbital and spin order are suppressed almost down to zero temperature and hence, it represents one of the rare examples of a spin-orbital liquid (SOL).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…We speculate that the tunnelling effect between FMM domains in phase-separated PCSMO film is also responsible for the dielectric relaxation processes especially at low temperature region. For the tunnelling process, the time constant τ T is nearly temperature independent at low temperatures 28 . A fit to the data, combining a thermal-activated model and a tunnelling contribution by τ − 1 = τ T − 1 + τ 0 − 1 exp( − E a /k B T), has been added to the inset of Fig.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At some temperatures the coupling might be related to ordered and disordered magnetic sublattices, while at higher temperatures only disordered moments can enforce remnant bulk magnetization. Coupling of molecular or cluster orbital moments to the lattice of localized spins of transition metal ions might be appropriate for glass states in antiferromagnetic semiconductors 17,18,19 . Another direction for the GL framework development are amorphous polymers 10,13 with itinerant electrons and anomalous negative magnetization.…”
Section: Antiferromagnetic Systems and Magnetic Multicouplingmentioning
confidence: 99%