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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 22(93), 2004

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.93.227202

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Colossal Magnetoresistance without Phase Separation: Disorder-Induced Spin Glass State and Nanometer Scale Orbital-Charge Correlation in Half Doped Manganites

Journal article published in 2004 by R. Mathieu ORCID, D. Akahoshi, A. Asamitsu, Y. Tomioka, Y. Tokura
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Abstract

The magnetic and electrical properties of high-quality single crystals of A-site disordered (solid solution) Ln0.5Ba0.5MnO3 are investigated near the phase boundary between the spin-glass insulator and colossal-magnetoresistive ferromagnetic metal, locating near Ln=Sm. The temperature dependence of the ac susceptibility and the x-ray diffuse scattering of Eu0.5Ba0.5MnO3 are analyzed in detail. The uniformity of the random potential perturbation in Ln0.5Ba0.5MnO3 crystals with a small bandwidth yields, rather than the phase separation, an homogeneous short ranged charge or orbital order which gives rise to a nearly atomic spin-glass state. Remarkably, this microscopically disordered "charge-exchange-glass" state alone is able to bring forth the colossal magnetoresistance.