Neutron diffraction study of average and local structure in La0.5Ca0.5MnO3

Details Neutron diffraction study of average and local structure in La0.5Ca0.5MnO3 Neutron diffraction study of average and local structure in La0.5Ca0.5MnO3

2004-11-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411591v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

9 pages, 6 figures and 6 tables, to be submitted to Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.71.104430

We used neutron powder diffraction to obtain the local and long-range structure of La0.5Ca0.5MnO3 at room temperature and 20K. By combining Rietveld and pair distribution function analysis of the total neutron scattering data, we have analyzed the structure of the compound using two competing models describing the low temperature phase: first the charge ordered/orbital ordered model and second the Mn-Mn dimer model. These structural models fit the 20K neutron powder diffraction pattern equally well using Rietveld analysis. Therefore, pair distribution function analysis is used to probe the local and medium-range structure revealing a system with two distinctly distorted Mn octahedra and Mn ions with non-integral valence states. The distorted octahedra differ with the structural model for the Zener polaron type Mn-Mn dimer picture proposed for Pr0.6Ca0.4MnO3 and order in a similar checkerboard configuration associated with the CE-type anti-ferromagnetic structure. Therefore, locally the charge difference and structural ordering between the two Mn is appreciable enough to describe the system at 20K as "partially charge ordered".

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