Effect of strain on phase separation and de-vitrification of magnetic glass state in thin films of La5/8-yPryCa3/8MnO3 (y=0.45)

Details Effect of strain on phase separation and de-vitrification of magnetic glass state in thin films of La5/8-yPryCa3/8MnO3 (y=0.45) Effect of strain on phase separation and de-vitrification of magnetic glass state in thin films of La5/8-yPryCa3/8MnO3 (y=0.45)

2010-03-23

arxiv.org/abs/1003.4400v1

J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 22 (2010) 176002

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

9 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/22/17/176002

We present our study of effect of substrate induced strain on the La5/8-yPryCa3/8MnO3 (y=0.45), thin films grown on LaAlO3, NdGaO3 and SrTiO3 susbtrates that show large scale phase separation. It is observed that unstrained films grown on NdGaO3 behave quite similar to bulk material but the strained film grown on SrTiO3 show melting of insulating phase to metallic phase at low temperatures. However, the large scale phase separation and metastable glass-like state is observed in all the films despite difference in substrate induced strain. The measurements of resistivity as a function of temperature under cooling and heating in unequal field (CHUF) protocol elucidates the presence of glass-like meta-stable phase generated due to kinetic arrest of first order transformation in all the films. Like structural glasses, these magnetic glass-like phase shows evidence of devitrification of the arrested charge order-antiferromagnetic insulator (CO-AFI) phase to equilibrium ferromagnetic metallic (FMM) phase with isothermal increase of magnetic field and/or iso-field warming. These measurements also clearly brought out the equilibrium ground state of this system to be FMM and metastable glass-like phase to be AFI phase.

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