Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2007-04-19
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
6 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.78.035129
The coupling of the manganite stripe phase to the lattice and to strain has been investigated via transmission electron microscopy studies of polycrystalline and thin film manganites. In polycrystalline \PCMOfiftwo a lockin to $q/a^*=0.5$ in a sample with $x>0.5$ has been observed for the first time. Such a lockin has been predicted as a key part of the Landau CDW theory of the stripe phase. Thus it is possible to constrain the size of the electron-phonon coupling in the CDW Landau theory to between 0.04% and 0.05% of the electron-electron coupling term. In the thin film samples, films of the same thickness grown on two different substrates exhibited different wavevectors. The different strains present in the films on the two substrates can be related to the wavevector observed via Landau theory. It is demonstrated that the the elastic term which favours an incommensurate modulation has a similar size to the coupling between the strain and the wavevector, meaning that the coupling of strain to the superlattice is unexpectedly strong.
Attfield Paul. J.
Cox Sonja
Loudon James C.
Mathur Neil D.
Midgley Paul A.
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