Nature and evolution of incommensurate charge order in manganites visualized with cryogenic scanning transmission electron microscopy

El Baggari, Ismail; Savitzky, Benjamin H.; Admasu, Alemayehu S.; Kim, Jaewook; Cheong, Sang -Wook; Hovden, Robert; Kourkoutis, Lena F.

doi:10.1073/pnas.1714901115

Title: Nature and evolution of incommensurate charge order in manganites visualized with cryogenic scanning transmission electron microscopy

Journal Article · Tue Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714901115· OSTI ID:1559788

^[1]; Savitzky, Benjamin H. ^[1]; Admasu, Alemayehu S. ^[2]; Kim, Jaewook ^[2]; Cheong, Sang -Wook ^[2]; Hovden, Robert ^[3]; Kourkoutis, Lena F. ^[1]

Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)

Incommensurate charge order in hole-doped oxides is intertwined with exotic phenomena such as colossal magnetoresistance, high-temperature superconductivity, and electronic nematicity. Here, we map, at atomic resolution, the nature of incommensurate charge–lattice order in a manganite using scanning transmission electron microscopy at room temperature and cryogenic temperature (~93 K). In diffraction, the ordering wave vector changes upon cooling, a behavior typically associated with incommensurate order. However, using real space measurements, we discover that the ordered state forms lattice-locked regions over a few wavelengths interspersed with phase defects and changing periodicity. The cations undergo picometer-scale (~6 pm to 11 pm) transverse displacements, suggesting that charge–lattice coupling is strong. We further unearth phase inhomogeneity in the periodic lattice displacements at room temperature, and emergent phase coherence at 93 K. Such local phase variations govern the long-range correlations of the charge-ordered state and locally change the periodicity of the modulations, resulting in wave vector shifts in reciprocal space. These atomically resolved observations underscore the importance of lattice coupling and phase inhomogeneity, and provide a microscopic explanation for putative “incommensurate” order in hole-doped oxides.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; DGE-1144153; NSFMRI-1429155

OSTI ID:: 1559788

Journal Information:: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 115, Issue 7; ISSN 0027-8424

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