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Title: Effects of magnetization on hole localization and MnO{sub 6} octahedra disorder in hole-doped lanthanum manganese perovskites

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OSTI ID:296812
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  1. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
  2. Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States). Physics Dept.
  3. Florida Atlanta Univ., Boca Raton, FL (United States). Physics Dept.

The authors review the distortions of the MnO{sub 6} octahedra reduced by magnetization in hole-doped lanthanum manganese perovskites. The systems they consider include the colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) samples La{sub 1{minus}x}Ca{sub x}MnO{sub 3} (x = 0.21, 0.25, 0.30), La{sub 0.76}Ba{sub 0.33}MnO{sub 3}, and a poorer quality La{sub 0.76}Pb{sub 0.33}MnO{sub 3} sample. They also report preliminary work on three samples of oxygen-doped LaMnO{sub 3+{delta}} and a lanthanum-deficient La{sub 0.9}MnO{sub 3} sample. They find the same exponential relationship between the removal of the distortion and the sample magnetization in the Ba- and Pb-doped CMR samples as was found previously for the Ca doped samples. The MnO{sub 6} distortion in the oxygen-doped materials is found to slightly reduce below the magnetic transition, although much less so than in the CMR samples. Above T{sub C}, the antiferromagnetic LaMnO{sub 3.006} sample shows a softer temperature dependence of the Mn-O bond length distribution broadening. Surprisingly, even this sample shows deviations from thermal (Debye) behavior near T{sub N}, possibly due to FM coupling within MnO planes.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
296812
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-98-2531; CONF-9806129-; ON: DE99001242; TRN: 99:003074
Resource Relation:
Conference: Euroconference on polarons: condensation, pairing, magnetism, Erice (Italy), 9-17 Jun 1998; Other Information: PBD: [1998]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English