1. Valence states and spin structure of spinel FeV2O4 with different orbital degrees of freedom
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Kang, J.-S., Hwang, Jihoon, Kim, D. H., Lee, Eunsook, Kim, W. C., Kim, C. S., Kwon, Sangil, Lee, Soonchil, Kim, J.-Y., Ueno, Tetsuro, Sawada, Masahiro, Kim, Bongjae, Hyun Kim, Beom, and Min, B. I.
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Condensed Matter::Materials Science ,Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons - Abstract
The electronic structure of spinel FeV2O4, which contains two Jahn-Teller active Fe and V ions, has been investigated by employing soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), soft x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). XAS indicates that V ions are trivalent and Fe ions are nearly divalent. The signs of V and Fe 2p XMCD spectra are opposite to each other. It is found that the effect of the V 3d spin-orbit interaction on the V 2p XMCD spectrum is negligible, indicating that the orbital ordering of V t2g states occurs from the real orbital states and that the orbital moment of a V3+ ion is mostly quenched. NMR shows that V spins are canted to have a Yafet-Kittel-type triangular spin configuration.
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- 2012