Issue |
EPL
Volume 84, Number 6, December 2008
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Article Number | 67011 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/84/67011 | |
Published online | 12 January 2009 |
Relevance of solid solution randomness for long-range phase separation in highly correlated oxides
Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, CSIC, Campus Universitari de Bellaterra E-08193 Bellaterra, Spain, EU
Corresponding author: frontera@icmab.es
Received:
22
September
2008
Accepted:
16
November
2008
We have studied the role of the intrinsic disorder, introduced by the presence
of two different cations at the same crystallographic position, for promoting phase separation
in highly correlated oxides. We focus on perovskites with strong phase competition and dilute
chemical doping , in
which the presence of
instead of X is able to produce a local modification of the ground state (for instance, from
insulating charge order to ferromagnetic metal). Our results prove that in the dilute case,
a low density of
cations promoting a local change of state in a volume as small as the first coordination sphere,
generates large phase separated regions instead of a diluted distribution of ferromagnetic
nanoclusters. Our results demonstrate that diluted chemical disorder can promote phase
separation at the microscopic scale in a large variety of oxides with competing states.
PACS: 71.28.+d – Narrow-band systems; intermediate-valence solids / 71.30.+h – Metal-insulator transitions and other electronic transitions / 75.47.Lx – Manganites
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