Orbital molecules in electronic materials

J. Paul Attfield

doi:10.1063/1.4913736

Orbital molecules in electronic materials

J. Paul Attfield^*

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Orbital molecules are made up of coupled orbital states on several metal ions within an orbitally ordered (and sometimes also charge-ordered) solid such as a transition metal oxide. Spin-singlet dimers are known in many materials, but recent discoveries of more exotic species such as 18-electron heptamers in AlV2O4 and magnetic 3-atom trimerons in magnetite (Fe3O4) have shown that orbital molecules constitute a general new class of quantum electronic states in solids. (C) 2015 Author(s).

Original language	English
Article number	041510
Number of pages	7
Journal	APL Materials
Volume	3
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4913736
Publication status	Published - Apr 2015

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

TRANSITION
TEMPERATURE
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
MAGNETITE

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