% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{Zhang:885417, author = {Zhang, Xue-Jing and Koch, Erik and Pavarini, Eva}, title = {{O}rigin of orbital ordering in {YT}i{O} 3 and {L}a{T}i{O} 3}, journal = {Physical review / B}, volume = {102}, number = {3}, issn = {2469-9950}, address = {Woodbury, NY}, reportid = {FZJ-2020-03814}, pages = {035113}, year = {2020}, abstract = {The origin of orbital order in correlated transition-metal compounds is strongly debated. For the paradigmatic $e_g$ systems $KCuF_3$ and $LaMnO_3$, it has been shown that the electronic Kugel'-Khomskii mechanism alone is not sufficient to drive the orbital-ordering transition up to the high temperatures at which it is experimentally observed. In the case of $t_{2g}$ compounds, however, the role played by the superexchange interaction remains unclear. Here we investigate this question for two representative systems, the $3dt^1_{2g}$ Mott insulators $LaTiO_3$ and $YTiO_3$. We show that the Kugel'-Khomskii superexchange transition temperature $T_{KK}$ is unexpectedly large, comparable to the value for the $e^3_g$ fluoride $KCuF_3$. By deriving the general form of the orbital superexchange Hamiltonian for the $t^1_{2g}$ configuration, we show that the $GdFeO_3$-type distortion plays a key part in enhancing $T_{KK}$ to about 300 K. Still, orbital ordering above 300 K can be ascribed only to the presence of a static crystal-field splitting.}, cin = {JSC / IAS-3 / JARA-HPC}, ddc = {530}, cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-3-20090406 / $I:(DE-82)080012_20140620$}, pnm = {511 - Computational Science and Mathematical Methods (POF3-511) / 144 - Controlling Collective States (POF3-144) / Charge-transfer effects in multi-orbital correlated systems $(jiff46_20191101)$}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-511 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-144 / $G:(DE-Juel1)jiff46_20191101$}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, UT = {WOS:000545539900006}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.102.035113}, url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/885417}, }