Percolation and Colossal Magnetoresistance in Eu-based Hexaborides

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2004-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0404570v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.147203

Upon substituting Ca for Eu in the local-moment ferromagnet EuB$_6$, the Curie temperature $T_C$ decreases substantially with increasing dilution of the magnetic sublattice and is completely suppressed for $x$ $\leq$ 0.3. The Ca substitution leads to significant changes of the electronic properties across the Eu$_x$Ca$_{1-x}$B$_6$ series. Electron microscopy data for $x$ $\approx$ 0.27 indicate a phase separation into Eu- and Ca-rich clusters of 5 to 10 nm diameter, leading to percolation-type phenomena in the electrical transport properties. The related critical concentration $x_p$ is approximately 0.3. For $x$ $\approx$ 0.27, we observe colossal negative magnetoresistance effects at low temperatures, similar in magnitude as those reported for manganese oxides.

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