Nucleation and growth of orbital ordering

Takuro Katsufuji; Tomomasa Kajita; Suguru Yano; Yumiko Katayama; Kazunori Ueno

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16004-2

Nature Communications (May 2020)

Nucleation and growth of orbital ordering

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

Affiliations

Takuro Katsufuji: Department of Physics, Waseda University
Tomomasa Kajita: Department of Physics, Waseda University
Suguru Yano: Department of Physics, Waseda University
Yumiko Katayama: Department of Basic Science, University of Tokyo, Meguro
Kazunori Ueno: Department of Basic Science, University of Tokyo, Meguro

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.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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