Abstract
The orbital ground state of is still under debate. Recent letters [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3950 (2000); 85, 3946 (2000)] discussed a scenario of an orbital liquid, and provided theoretical predictions about orbital contributions to the specific heat. Here we present the results of heat capacity and magnetic measurements. Based on model calculations we determine an electronic ground state which gives g values compatible with the experimentally observed ordered moment and the paramagnetic susceptibility. The heat capacity of is compared with that of orbitally ordered We conclude that most of the low-temperature heat capacity arises from magnon contributions in both and
- Received 20 March 2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.65.212405
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