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Introduction 12 Figure 1.9: A Schematic picture of antiferromagnetic CE-type structure with the charge and e g orbital ordering. distorted Mn 3+ O 6 in LaMnO 3 form an orthorhombic structure (space group P bnm ) where the e g charge occupies alternating 3d 3x 2 −r 2 and 3d 3y 2 −r2 orbitals. The magnetic structure of LaMnO 3 was found to be of A-type antiferromagnetic, where all Mn 3+ moments lying in c-plane are aligned ferromagnetically and the the FM layer stacks antiferromagnetically along the c-axis by the weaker superexchange interaction along this axis. The A-type AFM ordering exists below 140 K [33]. Different types of spin arrangements are shown in the Fig. 1.8. Upon substituting divalent cations such as Ca, Sr, Pb etc. to the parent compound like LaMnO 3 , the magnetic structure changes from A-type AFM to the FM with the rotation of the spin direction from the b-axis in the c-plane towards the c-axis associated with the metallic conduction, which was interpreted successfully in terms of DE mechanism at an early stage of the investigation. Further increase of doping, the charge ordered (CO) state near x = 0.5 is observed. For example in La 1−x Ca x MnO 3 (x = 0.5), the ordering becomes C-E type (Fig. 1.9), where the Mn 3+ and Mn 4+ line up forming alternate stripes in the C plane and stack also along the c-axis. This phenomenon in manganites was first observed by Wollan and Koehler [34] in the neutron powder diffraction of La 0.5 Ca 0.5 MnO 3 . Later these charge-ordering phases are observed in the low band width compound Pr 1−x Ca x MnO 3 with a broad doping region 0.3 < x < 0.75 [28, 35, 36, 37, 38]. The CO state for Pr 0.6 Ca 0.4 MnO 3 is called pseudo-CE type ordering [38] is shown
Introduction 13 Figure 1.10: A schematic picture of the antiferromagnetic pseudo-CE-type structure in the case of Pr 1−x Ca x MnO 3 (x = 0.4) [38]. in Fig. 1.10, where the arrangement of spin is canted along the c-axis while the CE-type ordering is kept within the orthorhombic ab-plane. For the ground state of R 1−x A x MnO 3 , i.e AMnO 3 (x = 1), the magnetic structure is called G-type AFM [34, 39] ordering in which the spins on all Mn 4+ sites are antiparallel to their nearest neighbours. 1.9 Pseudogap behavior in manganites The conducting properties of the materials depend on the finer changes associated with the density of states (DOS) near the Fermi level. If there are no allowed states at the Fermi level a gap forms by making the system insulating and finite density of states makes the system metallic. A Pseudogap exists in the mixed-phase regimes of manganites, which suggests that the prominent depletion of spectral weight (density of states) at the chemical potential, but not exactly zero (few states associated with it). This feature is similar to that extensively discussed in high T c superconductor. The calculations in the pseudogap context in manganites was carried out by Moreo et. al. [40, 41] using both one- and two-orbital models (Fig. 1.11). The density of states of the one-orbital model on 2D cluster varying the electronic density slightly below 〈n〉 = 1.0 is shown in the Fig. 1.11(a). At zero temperature, this density regime is unstable due to phase separation, but at the temperature of simulation those densities still correspond to stable states, but with a dynamical mixture of
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