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过掺杂锰氧化物基态相位孤子的~(139)La NMR证据

139La NMR evidence for phase solitons in the ground state of overdoped manganites

D. Koumoulis, N. Panopoulos, A. Reyes, M. Fardis, M. Pissas, A. Douvalis, T. Bakas, D. Argyriou, G. Papavassiliou

摘要:

空穴掺杂的过渡金属氧化物由于其非凡的电荷传输特性而闻名,例如高温超导性(铜氧化物)和巨磁阻(锰氧化物)。令人惊讶的是,这些化合物的母体系统是一个莫特绝缘体,而在金属或超导状态的建立中,空穴通过掺杂自组织的方式发挥着重要作用。实验已经表明,通过添加空穴,绝缘相破裂成反铁磁(AFM)区域,这些区域被富含空穴的团块(条带)分开,背景自旋和轨道的相位快速变化。然而,最近在La(1-x)Ca(x)MnO(3)(LCMO)族的过掺杂锰氧化物中的实验已经表明,这些系统中的电荷以均匀的电荷密度波(CDW)组织,而不是电荷条纹。此外,最近的理论工作预测了基态受到轨道孤子和电荷孤子的非均匀调制,即携带(+/-)e/2电荷的窄区域,在这些区域中轨道排列变化非常迅速。到目前为止,这只是一个理论预测。在这里,通过使用139 La核磁共振(NMR),我们提供了直接的证据,基态的过掺杂LCMO确实是孤子。通过降低温度,在AFM阶段观察到的窄NMR光谱被示出消除,而对于T<30 K,非常宽的光谱重新出现,这是不相称(IC)电荷和自旋调制的特征。值得注意的是,通过进一步降低温度,从宽IC NMR信号中出现相对窄的特征,表明当T->0时形成孤子调制。

英文摘要:

Hole doped transition metal oxides are famous due to their extraordinary charge transport properties, such as high temperature superconductivity (cuprates) and colossal magnetoresistance (manganites). Astonishing, the mother system of these compounds is a Mott insulator, whereas important role in the establishment of the metallic or superconducting state is played by the way that holes are self-organized with doping. Experiments have shown that by adding holes the insulating phase breaks into antiferromagnetic (AFM) regions, which are separated by hole rich clumps (stripes) with a rapid change of the phase of the background spins and orbitals. However, recent experiments in overdoped manganites of the La(1-x)Ca(x)MnO(3) (LCMO) family have shown that instead of charge stripes, charge in these systems is organized in a uniform charge density wave (CDW). Besides, recent theoretical works predicted that the ground state is inhomogeneously modulated by orbital and charge solitons, i.e. narrow regions carrying charge (+/-)e/2, where the orbital arrangement varies very rapidly. So far, this has been only a theoretical prediction. Here, by using 139La Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) we provide direct evidence that the ground state of overdoped LCMO is indeed solitonic. By lowering temperature the narrow NMR spectra observed in the AFM phase are shown to wipe out, while for T<30K a very broad spectrum reappears, characteristic of an incommensurate (IC) charge and spin modulation. Remarkably, by further decreasing temperature, a relatively narrow feature emerges from the broad IC NMR signal, manifesting the formation of a solitonic modulation as T->0.

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