Published April 1998 | Version v1
Journal article

Reentrant transition from an incipient charge-ordered state to a ferromagnetic metallic state in a rare-earth manganate

  • 1. Solid State Structural Chemistry Unit and Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore560012 (India)
  • 2. Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York11973 (United States)
  • 3. Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, California93106 (United States)

Description

A reentrant transition from an incipient charge-ordered (CO) state to a charge-delocalized ferromagnetic (CDFM) state has been established in the manganate Nd0.25La0.25Ca0.5MnO3, in which the average A-site ionic radius is 1.19 Angstrom. The reentrant CDFM phase is associated with a first-order phase transition that reduces the orthorhombic distortion of the lattice, in contrast to the CO transition in other manganates where the orthorhombically distorted CO state is stabilized at low temperatures. At the CO-CDFM transition, there is a collapse of the charge-ordering gap as measured by vacuum tunneling spectroscopy. copyright 1998 The American Physical Society

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Journal Title
Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
57
Journal Issue
14
Journal Page Range
p. R8115-R8118
ISSN
0163-1829
CODEN
PRBMDO