High resolution ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic correlations in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD (United States)
- National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba (Japan)
- Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 (LCMO30) is a perovskite manganite with a phase transition (TC = 238 K) between a paramagnetic insulator and a ferromagnetic metal. We use single-crystal, inelastic neutron scattering to refine previous work on the low energy (ℏω < 10 meV) magnetic excitations. At 300 K the spectrum consists of a diffusive ferromagnetic component at the pseudo-cubic Brillouin zone center coexisting with a quasielastic excitation located at the pseudo-cubic Brillouin zone edge. Both components are anti-correlated with ferromagnetic long-range order, showing weakened intensity at 215 K in the ferromagnetic phase. Polarized neutron scattering shows both features to be purely magnetic in origin. Furthermore, this indicates the simultaneous presence of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic correlations (located, respectively, at the zone center and zone edge) in a three-dimensional perovskite, while this coexistence had been previously observed only in a bilayer compound.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1883951
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Vol. 561; ISSN 0304-8853
- Publisher:
- ElsevierCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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