PHYS07200604007 Manas Kumar Dala - Homi Bhabha National ...
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Introduction 12<br />
Figure 1.9: A Schematic picture of antiferromagnetic CE-type structure with the<br />
charge and e g orbital ordering.<br />
distorted Mn 3+ O 6 in LaMnO 3 form an orthorhombic structure (space group P bnm )<br />
where the e g charge occupies alternating 3d 3x 2 −r 2 and 3d 3y 2 −r2 orbitals. The magnetic<br />
structure of LaMnO 3 was found to be of A-type antiferromagnetic, where all Mn 3+<br />
moments lying in c-plane are aligned ferromagnetically and the the FM layer stacks<br />
antiferromagnetically along the c-axis by the weaker superexchange interaction along<br />
this axis. The A-type AFM ordering exists below 140 K [33]. Different types of spin<br />
arrangements are shown in the Fig. 1.8. Upon substituting divalent cations such<br />
as Ca, Sr, Pb etc. to the parent compound like LaMnO 3 , the magnetic structure<br />
changes from A-type AFM to the FM with the rotation of the spin direction from<br />
the b-axis in the c-plane towards the c-axis associated with the metallic conduction,<br />
which was interpreted successfully in terms of DE mechanism at an early stage of the<br />
investigation. Further increase of doping, the charge ordered (CO) state near x = 0.5<br />
is observed. For example in La 1−x Ca x MnO 3 (x = 0.5), the ordering becomes C-E type<br />
(Fig. 1.9), where the Mn 3+ and Mn 4+ line up forming alternate stripes in the C plane<br />
and stack also along the c-axis. This phenomenon in manganites was first observed<br />
by Wollan and Koehler [34] in the neutron powder diffraction of La 0.5 Ca 0.5 MnO 3 .<br />
Later these charge-ordering phases are observed in the low band width compound<br />
Pr 1−x Ca x MnO 3 with a broad doping region 0.3 < x < 0.75 [28, 35, 36, 37, 38].<br />
The CO state for Pr 0.6 Ca 0.4 MnO 3 is called pseudo-CE type ordering [38] is shown