Orbitally induced string formation in the spin-orbital polarons

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2009-05-14

arxiv.org/abs/0905.2380v1

Physical Review B 79, 224433 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

18 pages, 10 figures; to appear in Physical Review B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.79.224433

We study the spectral function of a single hole doped into the (a,b) plane of the Mott insulator LaVO$_3$, with antiferromagnetic (AF) spin order of S=1 spins accompanied by alternating orbital (AO) order of active $\{d_{yz},d_{zx}\}$ orbitals. Starting from the respective t-J model, with spin-orbital superexchange and effective three-site hopping terms, we derive the polaron Hamiltonian and show that a hole couples simultaneously to the collective excitations of the AF/AO phase, magnons and orbitons. Next, we solve this polaron problem using the self-consistent Born approximation and find a stable quasiparticle solution -- a spin-orbital polaron. We show that the spin-orbital polaron resembles the orbital polaron found in $e_g$ systems, as e.g. in K$_2$CuF$_4$ or (to some extent) in LaMnO$_3$, and that the hole may be seen as confined in a string-like potential. However, the spins also play a crucial role in the formation of this polaron -- we explain how the orbital degrees of freedom: (i) confine the spin dynamics acting on the hole as the classical Ising spins, and (ii) generate the string potential which is of the joint spin-orbital character. Finally, we discuss the impact of the results presented here on the understanding of the phase diagrams of the lightly doped cubic vanadates.

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