Orbital fluctuating state in ferromagnetic insulating LaMn O3+δ (0.085≤δ≤0.125) studied using Raman spectroscopy

  • K. Y. Choi
  • , Yu G. Pashkevich
  • , V. P. Gnezdilov
  • , G. Güntherodt
  • , A. V. Yeremenko
  • , D. A. Nabok
  • , V. I. Kamenev
  • , S. N. Barilo
  • , S. V. Shiryaev
  • , A. G. Soldatov
  • , P. Lemmens

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Abstract

A giant softening by 30 cm-1 of the 490 and 620 cm-1 Jahn-Teller and breathing optical phonon modes is observed in Raman spectroscopy below the Curie temperature of single crystalline LaMn O3+δ (0.085≤δ≤0.125). A pseudogaplike suppression of a continuum and a Fano antiresonance at 144 cm-1 appear below the charge-ordering temperature. Upon going through the antiferromagnetic/ferromagnetic insulating phase boundary a high-frequency maximum of three-peaks structure evolves to a unstructured, broadened maximum while undergoing a softening in the peak energy. This is interpreted in terms of the presence of fluctuating orbitals and mobile holes which form a stripelike state in the lightly doped, insulating manganites.

Original languageEnglish
Article number064406
JournalPhysical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume74
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes

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