American Institute of Physics, Journal of Applied Physics, 8(99), p. 08A702
DOI: 10.1063/1.2150388
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Data are presented on the thermal dependence of the hysteretic properties of cationic vacancies including manganite samples of composition LaMnO3+δ (δ = 0.05 and 0.12). Our results evidence the presence in both samples of two magnetic phases having ferro- and antiferromagnetic orders, respectively. The temperature dependence of the coercivity and relaxational properties of the samples is closely linked to the connectivity of the magnetic moment bearing Mn3+–Mn4+ ferromagnetic clusters that demagnetize independently in the case of the δ = 0.05 sample and collectively in that of the δ = 0.12 one, as evidenced from the activation volume results (δ = 0.05) which yielded a size of the same order magnitude as that obtained in previous works for the Mn3+–Mn4+ ferromagnetic cluster size.