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LaMnO_3中低能Mott-Hubbard激发的椭圆偏振光谱研究

Low-energy Mott-Hubbard excitations in LaMnO_3 probed by optical ellipsometry

N. N. Kovaleva, Andrzej M. Oles, A. M. Balbashov, A. Maljuk, D. N. Argyriou, G. Khaliullin, B. Keimer

摘要:

本文报道了在20 K <T <300 K时,在1.2 - 6.0 eV光谱范围内,对非孪晶、近化学计量比的LaMnO_3晶体的椭圆偏振光谱进行了全面的研究。沿Pbnm正交晶胞的b和c轴的复介电响应ε ^b(ν)和ε ^c(ν)在实验覆盖的光谱范围内是高度各向异性的。随着温度的降低,ε ^b(ν)和ε ^c(ν)之间的差值增大,在T_N = 139.6 K时,A型反铁磁长程序的出现大大增强了顺磁态的渐变过程.除了在2 eV的最低能隙激发的温度变化外,在4 - 5 eV的较高能量下观察到相反的变化,出现在宽带背景上,这是由于在电荷转移能量4.7 eV附近强烈偶极允许的O 2p-Mn 3d跃迁。根据对磁有序时低能和高能特征之间明显的谱重转移的观察,它们被归属于Mn电子的高自旋和低自旋的位间d^4d^4-d^3d^5跃迁。利用有效自旋-轨道超交换模型定量描述了最低能带的各向异性和由反铁磁自旋关联引起的谱重位移。通过对Mn原子间e_g电子跃迁的多重态结构的分析,我们可以估算LaMnO_3中原子内有效库仑相互作用、Hund交换耦合和e_g轨道间的Jahn-Teller分裂能。这项研究确定了最低能量的光学跃迁在2 eV的intersite d-d过渡,其能量大大降低相比,从裸露的原子内库仑相互作用。

英文摘要:

We present a comprehensive ellipsometric study of an untwinned, nearly stoichiometric LaMnO_3 crystal in the spectral range 1.2-6.0 eV at temperatures 20 K < T < 300 K. The complex dielectric response along the b and c axes of the Pbnm orthorhombic unit cell, ε^b(ν) and ε^c(ν), is highly anisotropic over the spectral range covered in the experiment. The difference between ε^b(ν) and ε^c(ν) increases with decreasing temperature, and the gradual evolution observed in the paramagnetic state is strongly enhanced by the onset of A-type antiferromagnetic long-range order at T_N = 139.6 K. In addition to the temperature changes in the lowest-energy gap excitation at 2 eV, there are opposite changes observed at higher energy at 4 - 5 eV, appearing on a broad-band background due to the strongly dipole-allowed O 2p -- Mn 3d transition around the charge-transfer energy 4.7 eV. Based on the observation of a pronounced spectral-weight transfer between low- and high-energy features upon magnetic ordering, they are assigned to high-spin and low-spin intersite d^4d^4 - d^3d^5 transitions by Mn electrons. The anisotropy of the lowest-energy optical band and the spectral weight shifts induced by antiferromagnetic spin correlations are quantitatively described by an effective spin-orbital superexchange model. An analysis of the multiplet structure of the intersite transitions by Mn e_g electrons allowed us to estimate the effective intra-atomic Coulomb interaction, the Hund exchange coupling, and the Jahn-Teller splitting energy between e_g orbitals in LaMnO_3. This study identifies the lowest-energy optical transition at 2 eV as an intersite d-d transition, whose energy is substantially reduced compared to that obtained from the bare intra-atomic Coulomb interaction.

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