Effect of carrier doping on the formation and collapse of magnetic polarons in lightly hole-doped La1-xSrxCoO3

A. Podlesnyak, G. Ehlers, M. Frontzek, A. S. Sefat, A. Furrer, Th Strässle, E. Pomjakushina, K. Conder, F. Demmel, D. I. Khomskii

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Abstract

We investigate the doping dependence of the nanoscale electronic and magnetic inhomogeneities in the hole-doping range 0.002≤x≤0.1 of cobalt based perovskites, La1-xSrxCoO3. Using single-crystal inelastic neutron scattering and magnetization measurements we show that the lightly doped system exhibits magnetoelectronic phase separation in the form of spin-state polarons. Higher hole doping leads to a decay of spin-state polarons in favor of larger scale magnetic clusters, due to competing ferromagnetic correlations of Co3+ ions which are formed by neighboring polarons. The present data give evidence for two regimes of magnetoelectronic phase separation in this system: (i) xb 20.05, dominated by ferromagnetic intrapolaron interactions, and (ii) xb 30.05, dominated by Co3+-Co3+ intracluster interactions. Our conclusions are in good agreement with a recently proposed model of the phase separation in cobalt perovskites.

Original languageEnglish
Article number134430
JournalPhysical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume83
Issue number13
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 21 2011

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