Orbital switching in a frustrated magnet

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Yoshida, Hiroyuki ^a   Yamaura, Jun Ichi ^b   Isobe, Masaaki ^a   Okamoto, Yoshihiko ^b   Nilsen, Goran J ^b   Hiroi, Zenji ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; HYDROGEN; KAGOME ANTIFERROMAGNET; TRANSITION ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLBORTHITE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; HYDROGEN BOND; MAGNETISM; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; ORBITAL SWITCHING; PHASE TRANSITION; SYNTHESIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84863519119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1875     Document Type: Article

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