Pressure induced canted ferromagnetic order in La<sub>1.32</sub>Sr<sub>1.68</sub>Mn<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub> layered manganite
M Kumaresavanji; M S Reis; Y T Xing; M B Fontes
Журнал:
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Дата:
2010-01-01
Аннотация:
The electrical resistance, magnetization and magnetoresistance of La<sub>1.32</sub>Sr<sub>1.68</sub>Mn<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub> layered manganite have been studied under hydrostatic pressure and magnetic field. At ambient pressure, the temperature dependence of the magnetization shows a ferromagnetic to paramagnetic transition at 118 K. Close to this transition, we have also observed a metal-insulator transition at T T<sup>1</sup><sub>MI</sub> in the temperature dependence of the resistivity ρ(T) measurement. The increasing pressure enhances a second metal-insulator transition T<sup>2</sup><sub>MI</sub> at a critical pressure 6 ≤ P<sub>C</sub> ≤ 7 kbar. With further increasing pressure, both the T<sup>1</sup><sub>MI</sub> and T<sup>2</sup><sub>MI</sub> shift to high temperatures and the peak resistivity suppresses abruptly. We could not observe any transition correspond to T<sup>2</sup><sub>MI</sub> in the temperature dependence of the magnetization up to 10.2 kbar. A large negative tunneling magnetoresistance was observed around T<sub>C</sub> in the field dependence of the ρ(T) curves and the pressure reduces magnetoresistance ratio significantly. From our results, we argue that the increasing pressure induces a canted ferromagnetic order which leads to a ferromagnetic insulating phase at low temperature.
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