Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2006-09-19
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
7 pages, 4 figures, submited to Europhysics Letters
Scientific paper
The optical conductivity of the undoped PrMnO$_3$ manganite has been investigated in details at various temperatures between 300 and 4 K. Its low energy spectrum exhibits an optical gap, and is characterized by a single broad peak centered at $\sim$ 2 eV. This peak is interpreted in terms of an indirect interband transition between the split bands $e_\text{g}$ caused by a strong electron Jahn-Teller phonon coupling. The spectral weight of this transition is found to be related to the magnetic ordering, which consists of ferromagnetic planes coupled antiferromagnetically. We show that such a 2D ferromagnetism plays, via the double exchange interaction, an essential role in the electronic properties of PrMnO$_3$, which is a 3D antiferromagnetic compound. Finally, an excess of optical spectral weight is found above the N\'eel temperature, and is attributed to ferromagnetic fluctuations. A signature of such fluctuations is equally found from electron spin resonance experiments.
Autret-Lambert Cécile
Brize V.
Gruener G.
Phuoc V. Ta
Sopracase R.
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