Local atomic and electronic structure in LaMnO{sub 3} across the orbital ordering transition
- Laboratorio Nacional de Luz Sincrotron (LNLS), P.O. Box 6192, 13084-971, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil and (Brazil)
The local atomic disorder and electronic structure in the environment of manganese atoms in LaMnO{sub 3} has been studied by x-ray absorption spectroscopy over a temperature range (300-870 K) covering the orbital ordering transition ({approx}710 K). The Mn-O distance splitting into short and long bonds (1.95 and 2.15 A) is kept across the transition temperature, so that the MnO{sub 6} octahedra remain locally Jahn-Teller distorted. Discontinuities in the Mn local structure are identified in the extended x-ray fine structure spectra at this temperature, associated with a reduction of the disorder in the superexchange angle and to the removal of the anisotropy in the radial disorder within the coordination shell. Subtle changes in the electronic local structure also take place at the Mn site at the transition temperature. The near-edge spectra show a small drop of the Mn 4p hole count and a small enhancement in the pre-edge structures at the transition temperature. These features are associated with an increase of the covalence of the Mn-O bonds. Our results shed light on the local electronic and structural phenomena in a model of order-disorder transition, where the cooperative distortion is overcome by the thermal disorder.
- OSTI ID:
- 20662261
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 70, Issue 21; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.214426; (c) 2004 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1098-0121
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY
ANISOTROPY
BOND LENGTHS
ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE
FINE STRUCTURE
INTERACTIONS
JAHN-TELLER EFFECT
LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS
MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS
MANGANATES
ORDER-DISORDER TRANSFORMATIONS
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TEMPERATURE RANGE 0273-0400 K
TEMPERATURE RANGE 0400-1000 K
TRANSITION TEMPERATURE
X RADIATION
X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY