Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Effects of Reduced Dimensionality on Spin Dynamics in the Layered Perovskite La{sub 1.4}Sr{sub 1.6}Mn{sub 2}O{sub 7}

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
 [1];  [2];  [3]; ;  [4]; ;  [5];  [6]
  1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
  2. Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (United States)
  3. Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden (The Netherlands)
  4. Joint Research Center for Atomic Technology (JRCAT), Tsukuba 305 (Japan)
  5. Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027 (United States)
  6. Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113 (Japan)
We report zero-field muon spin rotation data in single crystals of La{sub 1.4}Sr {sub 1.6}Mn{sub 2}O{sub 7} for T=5{endash}325 K . The spin-lattice relaxation rate is spatially inhomogeneous below the 3D magnetic transition temperature T{sub C} and anisotropic above T{sub C} . We find evidence against 2D spin ordering or in-plane correlations above T{sub C} . Additionally, the very slow spin fluctuations found below T{sub C} in cubic (3D) perovskites like (La,thinspCa)MnO{sub 3} or (La,thinspSr)MnO{sub 3} , and attributed to relatively small magnetoelastic polarons, are absent in La{sub 1.4}Sr {sub 1.6}Mn{sub 2}O{sub 7} . This suggests that the polaron size in the layered material is significantly larger than in the 3D perovskites. {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society}
OSTI ID:
643591
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 81; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English