Atomic-scale images of charge ordering in a mixed-valence manganite

Details Atomic-scale images of charge ordering in a mixed-valence manganite Atomic-scale images of charge ordering in a mixed-valence manganite

2002-04-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0204146v1

Nature 416, 518-521 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

8 pages, 4 figures, 19 references

Scientific paper

10.1038/416518a

Transition-metal perovskite oxides exhibit a wide range of extraordinary but imperfectly understood phenomena. Charge, spin, orbital, and lattice degrees of freedom all undergo order-disorder transitions in regimes not far from where the best-known of these phenomena, namely high-temperature superconductivity of the copper oxides, and the 'colossal' magnetoresistance of the manganese oxides, occur. Mostly diffraction techniques, sensitive either to the spin or the ionic core, have been used to measure the order. Unfortunately, because they are only weakly sensitive to valence electrons and yield superposition of signals from distinct mesoscopic phases, they cannot directly image mesoscopic phase coexistence and charge ordering, two key features of the manganites. Here we describe the first experiment to image charge ordering and phase separation in real space with atomic-scale resolution in a transition metal oxide. Our scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) data show that charge order is correlated with structural order, as well as with whether the material is locally metallic or insulating, thus giving an atomic-scale basis for descriptions of the manganites as mixtures of electronically and structurally distinct phases.

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