Transport and Magnetic Studies on the Spin State Transition of Pr1-xCaxCoO3 up to High Pressure

Details Transport and Magnetic Studies on the Spin State Transition of Pr1-xCaxCoO3 up to High Pressure Transport and Magnetic Studies on the Spin State Transition of Pr1-xCaxCoO3 up to High Pressure

2004-02-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0402517v2

J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 73 (2004) 1987.

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

15 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jpn

Scientific paper

10.1143/JPSJ.73.1987

Transport and magnetic measurements and structural and NMR studies have been carried out on (Pr1-yR'y)1-xAxCoO3 {R'=(rare earth elements and Y); A=(Ca, Ba and Sr)} at ambient pressure or under high pressure. The system exhibits a phase transition from a nearly metallic to an insulating state with decreasing temperature T, where the low spin (LS) state of Co3+ is suddenly stabilized. For y=0, we have constructed a T-x phase diagram at various values of the external pressure p. It shows that the (T, x) region of the low temperature phase, which is confined to a very narrow region around x=0.5 at ambient pressure, expands as p increases, suggesting that the transition is not due to an order-disorder type one. For the occurrence of the transition, both the Pr and Ca atoms seem to be necessary. The intimate relationship between the local structure around the Co ions and the electronic (or spin) state of Co3+ ions is discussed: For the smaller unit cell volume or the smaller volume of the CoO6 octahedra and for the larger tilting angle of the octahedra, the temperature of the transition becomes higher. The role of the carriers introduced by the doping of the A atoms, is also discussed. By analyzing the data of 59Co-NMR spectra and magnetic susceptibilities of Pr1-xCaxCoO3 the energy separations among the different spin states of Co3+ and Co4+ are roughly estimated.

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