Nature Communications (May 2020)

Nucleation and growth of orbital ordering

  • Takuro Katsufuji,
  • Tomomasa Kajita,
  • Suguru Yano,
  • Yumiko Katayama,
  • Kazunori Ueno

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16004-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The dynamics of many discontinuous phase transitions is determined by the nucleation and growth of regions of the new phase. Katsufuji et al. demonstrate that the orbital ordering transition of doped BaV10O15 presents an electronic example of nucleation-growth behaviour.