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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 1(101), 2008

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.016404

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Crystal-Field Level Inversion in Lightly Mn-DopedSr3Ru2O7

Journal article published in 2008 by M. A. Hossain, Z. Hu, M. W. Haverkort, T. Burnus, C. F. Chang ORCID, S. Klein, J. D. Denlinger, H.-J. Lin, C. T. Chen, R. Mathieu ORCID, Y. Kaneko, Y. Tokura, S. Satow, Y. Yoshida, H. Takagi and other authors.
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Abstract

Sr3(Ru(1-x)Mnx)2O7, in which 4d-Ru is substituted by the more localized 3d-Mn, is studied by x-ray dichroism and spin-resolved density functional theory. We find that Mn impurities do not exhibit the same 4+ valence of Ru, but act as 3+ acceptors; the extra eg electron occupies the in-plane 3d(x2-y2) orbital instead of the expected out-of-plane 3d(3z2-r2). We propose that the 3d-4d interplay, via the ligand oxygen orbitals, is responsible for this crystal-field level inversion and the material's transition to an antiferromagnetic, possibly orbitally ordered, low-temperature state.