Local atomic and electronic structure in LaMnO_3 across the orbital ordering transition

Details Local atomic and electronic structure in LaMnO_3 across the orbital ordering transition Local atomic and electronic structure in LaMnO_3 across the orbital ordering transition

2004-12-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412065v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

6 pages, 6 figures, accepted Phys. Rev B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.70.214426

The local atomic disorder and the electronic structure in the environment of manganese atoms in LaMnO_3 has been studied by x-ray absorption spectroscopy, over a temperature range (300K to 870K) covering the orbital ordering transition (710K). The Mn-O distances splitting into short and long bonds (1.95 and 2.15A) is kept across the transition temperature, so that the MnO_6 octahedra remain locally Jahn-Teller distorted. Discontinuities in the Mn local structure are identified in the extended x-ray fine structure spectra at this temperature, associated to a reduction of the disorder in the super-exchange angle and to the removal of the anisotropy in the radial disorder within the coordination shell. Subtle changes in the electronic local structure also take place at the Mn site at the transition temperature. The near edge spectra show a small drop of the Mn 4p hole count and a small enhancement in the pre-edge structures at the transition temperature. These features are associated to an increase of the covalence of the Mn-O bonds. Our results shed light on the local electronic and structural phenomena in a model of order-disorder transition, where the cooperative distortion is overcome by the thermal disorder.

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