Spin-State Transition and Metal-Insulator Transition in La$_{1-x}$Eu$_x$CoO$_3$}

Details Spin-State Transition and Metal-Insulator Transition in La$_{1-x}$Eu$_x$CoO$_3$} Spin-State Transition and Metal-Insulator Transition in La$_{1-x}$Eu$_x$CoO$_3$}

2004-05-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0405680v2

Phys. Rev. B 71, 014443 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

10 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.71.014443

We present a study of the structure, the electric resistivity, the magnetic susceptibility, and the thermal expansion of La$_{1-x}$Eu$_x$CoO$_3$. LaCoO$_3$ shows a temperature-induced spin-state transition around 100 K and a metal-insulator transition around 500 K. Partial substitution of La$^{3+}$ by the smaller Eu$^{3+}$ causes chemical pressure and leads to a drastic increase of the spin gap from about 190 K in LaCoO$_3$ to about 2000 K in EuCoO$_3$, so that the spin-state transition is shifted to much higher temperatures. A combined analysis of thermal expansion and susceptibility gives evidence that the spin-state transition has to be attributed to a population of an intermediate-spin state with orbital order for $x<0.5$ and without orbital order for larger $x$. In contrast to the spin-state transition, the metal-insulator transition is shifted only moderately to higher temperatures with increasing Eu content, showing that the metal-insulator transition occurs independently from the spin-state distribution of the Co$^{3+}$ ions. Around the metal-insulator transition the magnetic susceptibility shows a similar increase for all $x$ and approaches a doping-independent value around 1000 K indicating that well above the metal-insulator transition the same spin state is approached for all $x$.

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