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Title: Fragile Magnetic Ground State in Half-Doped LaSr(2)Mn(2)O(7)

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters

We investigated the orbital and antiferromagnetic ordering behaviors of the half-doped bilayer manganite La{sub 2-2x}Sr{sub 1+2x}Mn{sub 2}O{sub 7} (x {approx_equal} 0.5) by using Mn L{sub 2,3}-edge resonant soft x-ray scattering. Resonant soft x-ray scattering reveals the CE-type orbital order below T{sub oo} {approx_equal} 220 K, which shows partial melting behavior below T{sub m} {approx_equal}65 K. We also found coexistence CE- and A-type antiferromagnetic orders. Both orders involve the CE-type orbital order with nearly the same orbital character and are coupled with each other. These results manifest that the ground state with the CE-type antiferromagnetic order is easily susceptible to destabilization into the A-type one even with a small fluctuation of the doping level, as suggested by the extremely narrow magnetic phase boundaries at x {approx_equal} x {yields} 0.5 {+-} 0.005.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-98CH10886
OSTI ID:
1041688
Report Number(s):
BNL-97366-2012-JA; PRLTAO; TRN: US201212%%100
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 107, Issue 3; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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