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J-freezing and Hunds rules in spin-orbit-coupled multiorbital Hubbard models

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 نشر من قبل Aaram Joo Kim
 تاريخ النشر 2016
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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We investigate the phase diagram of the spin-orbit-coupled three orbital Hubbard model at arbitrary filling by means of dynamical mean-field theory combined with continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo. We find that the spin-freezing crossover occurring in the metallic phase of the non-relativistic multiorbital Hubbard model can be generalized to a $mathbf{J}$-freezing crossover, with $mathbf{J}=mathbf{L}+mathbf{S}$, in the spin-orbit-coupled case. In the $mathbf{J}$-frozen regime the correlated electrons exhibit a non-trivial flavor selectivity and energy dependence. Furthermore, in the regions near $n=2$ and $n=4$ the metallic states are qualitatively different from each other, which reflects the atomic Hunds third rule. Finally, we explore the appearance of magnetic order from exciton condensation at $n=4$ and discuss the relevance of our results for real materials.


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