Spin Superstructures in Thin Films of Correlated Electron Systems

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  • NAKAMURA Masao
    Cross-Correlated Materials Research Group (CMRG), RIKEN
  • KAWASAKI Masashi
    Cross-Correlated Materials Research Group (CMRG), RIKEN WPI-Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo
  • TOKURA Yoshinori
    Cross-Correlated Materials Research Group (CMRG), RIKEN Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo

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  • 強相関電子系の薄膜におけるスピン超構造
  • キョウ ソウカン デンシケイ ノ ハクマク ニ オケル スピン チョウコウゾウ

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Realizing an electronic phase competition in a material is a promising approach to induce a large electronic change by a small external field. One of typical materials showing the phase competition is the half-doped perovskite manganite, in which the ground state drastically changes between the antiferromagnetic-insulating (AFM-I) and ferromagnetic-metallic (FM-M) states depending on the slight difference in the band width. Near the phase boundary, the two phases coexist and compete with each other, giving rise to a gigantic field response like the colossal magnetoresistance. We show in this paper the observation of a self-organized anisotropic phase separation with use of a microwave impedance microscope for a thin film of Nd0.5Sr0.5MnO3, which locates on the verge of the phase boundary. We also show an artificially tailored phase separation and its magnetic control realized in superlattices composed of Pr0.5Ca0.5MnO3 (AFM-I) and La0.5Sr0.5MnO3 (FM-M).

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  • Hyomen Kagaku

    Hyomen Kagaku 32 (3), 128-133, 2011

    The Surface Science Society of Japan

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