Abstract
Polycrystalline samples of the quarter-doped manganites R 0.75Ca0.25MnO3 (R = Y, Tb, Dy, Ho, and Er) were studied by x-ray diffraction and AC/DC susceptibility measurements. All five samples are orthorhombic and exhibit similar magnetic properties: enhanced ferromagnetism below T 1 (∼80 K) and a spin glass (SG) state below T SG (∼30 K). With increasing R 3+ ionic size, both T 1 and T SG generally increase. The single crystal neutron diffraction results on Tb0.75Ca0.25MnO3 revealed that the SG state is mainly composed of a short-range ordered version of a novel canted (i.e. noncollinear) antiferromagnetic spin state. Furthermore, calculations based on the double exchange model for quarter-doped manganites reveal that this new magnetic phase provides a transition state between the ferromagnetic state and the theoretically predicted spin-orthogonal stripe phase.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 065802 |
Journal | Journal of Physics Condensed Matter |
Volume | 29 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 15 2017 |
Funding
SD was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51322206). ED was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMR-1404375. The work at NHMFL is supported by Grant No. NSF-DMR-1157490 and the State of Florida and by the additional funding from NHMFL User Collaboration Support Grant.
Keywords
- magnetic materials
- magnetoelectrics
- spin glass