Issue |
EPL
Volume 98, Number 2, April 2012
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Article Number | 27004 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/27004 | |
Published online | 24 April 2012 |
Structural domain and spin-ordering–induced glassy magnetic phase in single-layered manganite Pr0.22Sr1.78MnO4
Department of Solid State Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032, India
Received:
21
December
2011
Accepted:
16
March
2012
The single-layered manganite Pr0.22Sr1.78MnO4 undergoes structural transition from high temperature tetragonal phase to low temperature orthorhombic phase below room temperature. The orthorhombic phase was reported to have two structural variants with slightly different lattice parameters and Mn-3d levels show orbital ordering within both the variants, albeit having mutually perpendicular ordering axis. In addition to orbital ordering, the orthorhombic variants also order antiferromagnetically with different Néel temperatures. Our magnetic investigation on the polycrystalline sample of Pr0.22Sr1.78MnO4 shows large thermal hysteresis indicating the first-order nature of the tetragonal to orthorhombic transition. We observe magnetic memory, large relaxation, frequency-dependent ac susceptbility and aging effects at low temperature, which indicate spin-glass–like magnetic ground state in the sample. The glassy magnetic state presumably arises from the interfacial frustration of orthorhombic domains with orbital and spin orderings playing crucial role toward the competing magnetic interactions.
PACS: 75.25.Dk – Orbital, charge, and other orders, including coupling of these orders / 75.50.Lk – Spin glasses and other random magnets / 75.47.Lx – Magnetic oxides
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