Electrical nonlinearity in colossal magnetoresistance manganite films: Relevance of correlated polarons
2009 | journal article. A publication with affiliation to the University of Göttingen.
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Electrical nonlinearity in colossal magnetoresistance manganite films: Relevance of correlated polarons
Moshnyaga, V. T. ; Gehrke, K.; Lebedev, O. I.; Sudheendra, L.; Belenchuk, A.; Raabe, S. & Shapoval, O. et al. (2009)
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 79(13) art. 134413. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.79.134413
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- Moshnyaga, Vasily T. ; Gehrke, Kai; Lebedev, Oleg I.; Sudheendra, L.; Belenchuk, A.; Raabe, Stephanie; Shapoval, O.; Verbeeck, J.; van Tendeloo, G.; Samwer, Konrad H.
- Abstract
- The metal-insulator (MI) transition in epitaxial thin films of La(0.75)Ca(0.25)MnO(3) (LCMO) is accompanied by the appearance of an intrinsic electrical nonlinearity. The latter, probed by electrical third harmonic voltage, U(3 omega), or resistance, R(3 omega)=dU(3 omega)/dJ, is drastically enhanced in the vicinity of the MI transition, T(MI)=267 K. Applied magnetic field, B=5 T, suppresses the nonlinearity, resulting in a huge "nonlinear" CMR(3 omega)(T(MI))similar to 10(5)%. R(3 omega) shows a peculiar low-frequency (omega <= 1 kHz) dependence, R(3 omega)similar to(omega-omega(0))(n), with exponent, n, changing across the MI transition from n similar to 1,5-2 for T >= T(MI) to n=1 (T < T(MI)). The observed electrical nonlinearity in LCMO reflects the behavior of correlated polarons, the number of which dramatically enhances in the vicinity of T(MI). We argued that correlated polarons, considered as electric-elastic quadrupoles, provide a nonlinear (quadratic) coupling to the electric field, yielding a third harmonic electric nonlinearity in LCMO. The reference film of La(0.7)Sr(0.3)MnO(3) (LSMO), a prototypic double exchange system with second-order phase transition, is characterized as a linear metallic material in the whole range of temperatures (T=10-400 K), magnetic fields (B=0-5 T), and frequencies (omega=1-1000 Hz).
- Issue Date
- 2009
- Status
- published
- Publisher
- Amer Physical Soc
- Journal
- PHYSICAL REVIEW B
- ISSN
- 1098-0121
- Sponsor
- European Union [026019 ESTEEM]