Evidence for small or intermediate-size polarons in the ferromagnetic state of manganites

Details Evidence for small or intermediate-size polarons in the ferromagnetic state of manganites Evidence for small or intermediate-size polarons in the ferromagnetic state of manganites

2000-08-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0008029v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 4 figures

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Oxygen-isotope effects on the intrinsic resistivity have been studied in high-quality epitaxial thin films of La_{0.75}Ca_{0.25}MnO_{3} and Nd_{0.7}Sr_{0.3}MnO_{3}. We found that the residual resistivity \rho_{o} increases by about 15(3)% upon replacing ^{16}O by ^{18}O. This provides strong evidence for the presence of small or intermediate-size polarons in the metallic ferromagnetic state. Furthermore, the temperature dependent part of the resistivity at low temperatures consists of an AT^{4.5} term contributed from 2-magnon scattering, and a B\omega_{s}/\sinh^{2}(\hbar\omega_{s}/2k_{B}T) term which arises from scattering by a soft optical phonon mode. The absolute magnitudes of the coefficient A and the phonon frequency \hbar\omega_{s} for both isotope samples are in quantitative agreement with theoretical predictions.

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