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Competing Orders and Disorder-induced Insulator to Metal Transition in Manganites
Effects of disorder on the two competing phases, i.e., the ferromagnetic
metal and the commensurate charge/lattice ordered insulator, are studied by
Monte Carlo simulation. The disorder suppresses the charge/lattice ordering
more strongly than the ferromagnetic order, driving the commensurate insulator
to the ferromagnetic metal near the phase boundary in the pure case. Above the
ferromagnetic transition temperature, on the contrary, the disorder makes the
system more insulating, which might cause an enhanced colossal
magnetoresistance as observed in the half-doped or Cr-substituted manganites.
No indication of the percolation or the cluster formation is found, and there
remain the charge/lattice fluctuations instead which are enhanced toward the
transition temperature.Comment: 5 pages including 4 figure
Impurity Effect on Ferromagnetic Transition in Double-Exchange Systems
Effect of randomness in the double-exchange model is studied. Large
fluctuations and spatial random distribution of impurities are taken into
account in an essentially exact manner by using the Monte Carlo calculation.
The randomness suppresses the ferromagnetism by reducing the coherence of
itinerant electrons. The suppression is significant in the critical region
where the fluctuations are dominant. Temperature dependences of the
magnetization are estimated for finite-size clusters. A characteristic
temperature for phase transition is estimated from the inflection
point, which is expected to give a good approximation for the critical
temperature in the thermodynamic limit. Our results suggest that the
ferromagnetism becomes unstable more rapidly than predicted in the previous
theoretical results by the coherent-potential approximation.Comment: 7 pages including 4 figures, submitted to Proc. ISSP
Universality Class of Ferromagnetic Transition in Three-Dimensional Double-Exchange System - O(N) Monte Carlo Study -
Curie temperature and exponents are studied for the three-dimensional
double-exchange model. Applying the O(N) Monte Carlo algorithm, we perform
systematic finite-size scaling analyses on the data up to sites. The
obtained values of the critical exponents are consistent with those of the
Heisenberg universality class, and clearly distinct from the mean-field values.Comment: 3 pages including 2 figure
Ferroelectricity induced by spin-dependent metal-ligand hybridization in BaCoGeO
We have investigated the variation of induced ferroelectric polarization
under magnetic field with various directions and magnitudes in a staggered
antiferromagnet BaCoGeO. While the ferroelectric polarization
cannot be explained by the well-accepted spin current model nor exchange
striction mechanism, we have shown that it is induced by the spin-dependent
- hybridization between the transition-metal (Co) and ligand (O) via the
spin-orbit interaction. On the basis of the correspondence between the
direction of electric polarization and the magnetic state, we have also
demonstrated the electrical control of the magnetization direction.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Electromagnons in the multiferroic state of perovskite manganites with symmetric-exchange striction
We have investigated electrically-active magnetic excitations
(electromagnons) in perovskite manganites with the -type (up-up-down-down)
spin structure by terahertz spectroscopy. EuYMnO (0.11) and YLuMnO (01) without magnetic -moments,
which host collinear sinusoidal, -type, cycloidal, and -type spin orders,
are used to examine the systematics of possible electromagnons. Three-peak
structures (23, 35, 45 cm) of magnetic origin show up in the -type
phase with little composition () dependence of frequencies, making a
contrast with the electromagnons observed in the cycloidal-spin ()
phases. One of these electromagnon is ascribed to the zone-edge magnon mode
based on the calculated magnon dispersions.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Electromagnons in the multiferroic state of perovskite manganites with symmetric-exchange striction
We have investigated electrically-active magnetic excitations
(electromagnons) in perovskite manganites with the -type (up-up-down-down)
spin structure by terahertz spectroscopy. EuYMnO (0.11) and YLuMnO (01) without magnetic -moments,
which host collinear sinusoidal, -type, cycloidal, and -type spin orders,
are used to examine the systematics of possible electromagnons. Three-peak
structures (23, 35, 45 cm) of magnetic origin show up in the -type
phase with little composition () dependence of frequencies, making a
contrast with the electromagnons observed in the cycloidal-spin ()
phases. One of these electromagnon is ascribed to the zone-edge magnon mode
based on the calculated magnon dispersions.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
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