Unexpected Intermediate State Photoinduced in the Metal-Insulator Transition of Submicrometer Phase-Separated Manganites

Lin, Hanxuan; Liu, Hao; Lin, Lingfang; Dong, Shuai; Chen, Hongyan; Bai, Yu; Miao, Tian; Yu, Yang; Yu, Weichao; Tang, Jing; Zhu, Yinyan; Kou, Yunfang; Niu, Jiebin; Cheng, Zhaohua; Xiao, Jiang; Wang, Wenbin; Dagotto, Elbio; Yin, Lifeng; Shen, Jian

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.120.267202

Title: Unexpected Intermediate State Photoinduced in the Metal-Insulator Transition of Submicrometer Phase-Separated Manganites

Journal Article · 28 June 2018 · Physical Review Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.120.267202 · OSTI ID:1649639

Lin, Hanxuan ^[1]; Liu, Hao ^[1]; Lin, Lingfang ^[2]; Dong, Shuai ^[2]; Chen, Hongyan ^[1]; Bai, Yu ^[1]; Miao, Tian ^[1]; Yu, Yang ^[1]; Yu, Weichao ^[1]; Tang, Jing ^[3]; Zhu, Yinyan ^[1]; Kou, Yunfang ^[1]; Niu, Jiebin ^[1]; Cheng, Zhaohua ^[3]; Xiao, Jiang ^[4]; Wang, Wenbin ^[5]; Dagotto, Elbio ^[6]; Yin, Lifeng ^[4]; Shen, Jian ^[4]

Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China). State Key Lab. of Surface Physics
Southeast Univ., Nanjing (China)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Beijing National Lab. for Condensed Matter Physics
Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China). State Key Lab. of Surface Physics; Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China). Inst. for Nanoelectronics Devices and Quantum Computing; Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing (China)
Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China). State Key Lab. of Surface Physics; Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China). Inst. for Nanoelectronics Devices and Quantum Computing
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

At ultrafast timescales, the initial and final states of a first-order metal-insulator transition often coexist forming clusters of the two phases. In this work, we report an unexpected third long-lived intermediate state emerging at the photoinduced first-order metal-insulator transition of La_0.325Pr_0.3Ca_0.375MnO₃, known to display submicrometer length-scale phase separation. Using magnetic force microscopy and time-dependent magneto-optical Kerr effect, we determined that the third state is a nanoscale mixture of the competing ferromagnetic metallic and charge-ordered insulating phases, with its own physical properties. This discovery bridges the two different families of colossal magnetoresistant manganites known experimentally and shows for the first time that the associated states predicted by theory can coexist in a single sample.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Key Research Program of China; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; 2016YFA0300702; 1504053; 11674055; 11474065; 18JC1411400; 18ZR1403200

OSTI ID:: 1649639

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1457577

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 120, Issue 26; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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