TY - JOUR AU - Zhang, Xue-Jing AU - Koch, Erik AU - Pavarini, Eva TI - LaVO_3 : A true Kugel-Khomskii system JO - Physical review / B VL - 106 IS - 11 SN - 1098-0121 CY - Woodbury, NY PB - Inst. M1 - FZJ-2022-03990 SP - 115110 PY - 2022 N1 - ISSN 2469-9969 not unique: **2 hits**. AB - We show that the t^2_2g perovskite LaVO_3, in its orthorhombic phase, is a rare case of a system hosting an orbital-ordering Kugel’-Khomskii phase transition rather than being controlled by the Coulomb-enhanced crystal-field splitting. We find that, as a consequence of this, the magnetic transition is close to (and even above) the superexchange driven orbital-ordering transition, whereas typically magnetism arises at much lower temperatures than orbital ordering. Our results support the experimental scenario of orbital ordering and G-type spin correlations just above the monoclinic-to-orthorhombic structural change. To explore the effects of crystal-field splitting and filling, we compare to YVO_3 and t^1_2g titanates. In all these materials the crystal field is sufficiently large to suppress the Kugel’-Khomskii phase transition. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000859707800004 DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.106.115110 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/910612 ER -