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Interplay of charge and spin correlations in nickel perovskites
Analyzing the motion of low--spin holes in a high--spin
background, we derive a sort of generalized t--J Hamiltonian for the planes of Sr--doped nickelates. In addition to the rather complex
carrier--spin and spin--spin couplings we take into account the coupling of the
doped holes to in--plane oxygen breathing modes by a Holstein--type interaction
term. Because of strong magnetic confinement effects the holes are nearly
entirely prelocalized and the electron--phonon coupling becomes much more
effective in forming polarons than in the isostructural cuprates. In the light
of recent experiments on we discuss how the variety of
the observed transport and charge/spin--ordering phenomena can be qualitatively
understood in terms of our model Hamiltonian.Comment: 2 pages, LTpaper.sty, Proc. XXI Int. Conf. on Low Temp. Phys. Prague
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Melting of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Charge Stripes in La5/3Sr1/3NiO4
Commensurability effects for nickelates have been studied by the first
neutron experiments on La5/3Sr1/3NiO4. Upon cooling, this system undergoes
three successive phase transitions associated with quasi-two-dimensional (2D)
commensurate charge and spin stripe ordering in the NiO planes. The two
lower temperature phases (denoted as phase II and III) are stripe lattice
states with quasi-long-range in-plane charge correlation. When the lattice of
2D charge stripes melts, it goes through an intermediate glass state (phase I)
before becoming a disordered liquid state. This glass state shows short-range
charge order without spin order, and may be called a "stripe glass" which
resembles the hexatic/nematic state in 2D melting.Comment: 10 pages, RevTex, 4 figures available on request to
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Conduction of topologically-protected charged ferroelectric domain walls
We report on the observation of nanoscale conduction at ferroelectric domain
walls in hexagonal HoMnO3 protected by the topology of multiferroic vortices
using in situ conductive atomic force microscopy, piezoresponse force
microscopy, and kelvin-probe force microscopy at low temperatures. In addition
to previously observed Schottky-like rectification at low bias [Phys. Rev.
Lett., 104, 217601 (2010)], conductance spectra reveal that negatively charged
tail-to-tail walls exhibit enhanced conduction at high forward bias, while
positively charged head-to-head walls exhibit suppressed conduction at high
reverse bias. Our results pave the way for understanding the semiconducting
properties of the domains and domain walls in small-gap ferroelectrics.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Magnetic excitations of the Cu quantum spin chain in SrCuPtO
We report the magnetic excitation spectrum as measured by inelastic neutron
scattering for a polycrystalline sample of SrCuPtO. Modeling the data
by the 2+4 spinon contributions to the dynamical susceptibility within the
chains, and with interchain coupling treated in the random phase approximation,
accounts for the major features of the powder-averaged structure factor. The
magnetic excitations broaden considerably as temperature is raised, persisting
up to above 100 K and displaying a broad transition as previously seen in the
susceptibility data. No spin gap is observed in the dispersive spin excitations
at low momentum transfer, which is consistent with the gapless spinon continuum
expected from the coordinate Bethe ansatz. However, the temperature dependence
of the excitation spectrum gives evidence of some very weak interchain
coupling.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure
Evidence for magnetic clusters in BaCoO
Magnetic properties of the transition metal oxide BaCoO are analyzed on
the basis of the experimental and theoretical literature available via ab inito
calculations. These can be explained by assuming the material to be formed by
noninteracting ferromagnetic clusters of about 1.2 nm in diameter separated by
about 3 diameters. Above about 50 K, the so-called blocking temperature,
superparamagnetic behavior of the magnetic clusters occurs and, above 250 K,
paramagnetism sets in.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
Fabrication and Characterization of Topological Insulator BiSe Nanocrystals
In the recently discovered class of materials known as topological
insulators, the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling causes certain
topological invariants in the bulk to differ from their values in vacuum. The
sudden change of invariants at the interface results in metallic, time reversal
invariant surface states whose properties are useful for applications in
spintronics and quantum computation. However, a key challenge is to fabricate
these materials on the nanoscale appropriate for devices and probing the
surface. To this end we have produced 2 nm thick nanocrystals of the
topological insulator BiSe via mechanical exfoliation. For crystals
thinner than 10 nm we observe the emergence of an additional mode in the Raman
spectrum. The emergent mode intensity together with the other results presented
here provide a recipe for production and thickness characterization of
BiSe nanocrystals.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures (accepted for publication in Applied Physics
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Ab initio study of the influence of nanoscale doping inhomogeneities in the phase separated state of LaCaMnO
The chemical influence in the phase separation phenomenon that occurs in
perovskite manganites is discussed by means of ab initio calculations.
Supercells have been used to simulate a phase separated state, that occurs at
Ca concentrations close to the localized to itinerant crossover. We have first
considered a model with two types of magnetic ordering coexisting within the
same compound. This is not stable. However, a non-isotropic distribution of
chemical dopants is found to be the ground state. This leads to regions in the
system with different effective concentrations, that would always accompany the
magnetic phase separation at the same nanometric scale, with hole-rich regions
being more ferromagnetic in character and hole-poor regions being in the
antiferromagnetic region of the phase diagram, as long as the system is close
to a phase crossover.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures, 1 tabl
Charge and Spin Dynamics of an Ordered Stripe Phase in La_(1 2/3)Sr_(1/3)NiO_4 by Raman Spectroscopy
For La_(1 2/3)Sr_(1/3)NiO_4 -- a commensurately doped Mott-Hubbard system --
charge- and spin-ordering in a stripe phase has been investigated by phononic
and magnetic Raman scattering. Formation of a superlattice and an opening of a
pseudo-gap in the electron-hole excitation spectra as well as two types of
double-spin excitations -- within the antiferromagnetic domain and across the
domain wall -- are observed below the charge-ordering transition. The
temperature dependence suggests that the spin ordering is driven by charge
ordering and that fluctuating stripes persist above the ordering transition.Comment: 5 pages, 4 EPS figures; to appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Colossal magnon-phonon coupling in multiferroic EuYMnO
We report the spectra of magnetically induced electric dipole absorption in
EuYMnO from temperature dependent far infrared
spectroscopy (10-250 cm). These spectra, which occur only in the
polarization, consist of two relatively narrow electromagnon features that
onset at K and a broad absorption band that persists to
temperatures well above K. The observed excitations account for the
step up of the static dielectric constant in the ferroelectric phase. The
electromagnon at 80 cm is observed to be strongly coupled to the nearby
lowest optical phonon which transfers more than 1/2 of its spectral weight to
the magnon. We attribute the origin of the broad background absorption to the
two magnon emission decay process of the phonon.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
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