@article{56dcc6889c3d40f69c91de61ea7888c9,
title = "Neutron scattering study of magnetic phase separation in nanocrystalline La5/8Ca3/8MnO3",
abstract = "We demonstrate that magnetic phase separation and competing spin order in the colossal magnetoresistive (CMR) manganites can be directly explored via tuning strain in bulk samples of nanocrystalline La1-xCa xMnO3. Our results show that strain can be reversibly frozen into the lattice in order to stabilize coexisting antiferromagnetic domains within the nominally ferromagnetic metallic state of La 5/8Ca3/8MnO3. The measurement of tunable phase separation via magnetic neutron powder diffraction presents a direct route of exploring the correlated spin properties of phase separated charge/magnetic order in highly strained CMR materials and opens a potential avenue for realizing intergrain spin tunnel junction networks with enhanced CMR behavior in a chemically homogeneous material.",
author = "Chetan Dhital and {De La Cruz}, Clarina and C. Opeil and A. Treat and Wang, {K. F.} and Liu, {J. M.} and Ren, {Z. F.} and Wilson, {Stephen D.}",
year = "2011",
month = oct,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevB.84.144401",
language = "English",
volume = "84",
journal = "Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics",
issn = "1098-0121",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "14",
}