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Orbital Order Instability and Orbital Excitations in Degenerate Itinerant Electron Systems

Feng Lu, Dong-meng Chen, Liang-Jian Zou

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0605379

Abstract

We present the theory of orbital ordering in orbital-degenerate itinerant electron systems. After proposing the criterion of instability for orbital ordering or orbital density wave ordering, we find that the orbital and the spin-orbital collective excitation spectra in ferro-orbital ordered phase exhibit finite gaps. The anomalous electronic energy spectra manifested in the angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and the orbital occupation in the resonant X-ray scattering (RXS) intensities are also presented for the orbital-ordered phase.

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