Orbital-driven electronic structure changes and the resulting optical anisotropy of the quasi-two-dimensional Spin gap compound La4Ru2O10

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Moon, S J ^a   Choi, W S ^a   Kim, S J ^a   Lee, Y S ^b   Khalifah, P G ^c,d   Mandrus, D ^d   Noh, T W ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Soongsil University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; GROUND STATE; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; SPIN DYNAMICS;

OPTICAL SPECTRA; ORBITAL-DEPENDENT HOPPING ANALYSIS; SPIN GAPS; SPIN-SINGLET GROUND STATE;

LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 41449087011     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.116404     Document Type: Article

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