Disproportionation and electronic phase separation in parent manganite LaMnO_3

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2010-08-12

arxiv.org/abs/1008.2132v1

Phys. Rev. B 79, 115102 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

20 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

Nominally pure undoped parent manganite LaMnO_3 exhibits a puzzling behavior inconsistent with a simple picture of an A-type antiferromagnetic insulator (A-AFI) with a cooperative Jahn-Teller ordering. We do assign its anomalous properties to charge transfer instabilities and competition between insulating A-AFI phase and metallic-like dynamically disproportionated phase formally separated by a first-order phase transition at T_{disp}=T_{JT}\approx 750 K. The unconventional high-temperature phase is addressed to be a specific electron-hole Bose liquid (EHBL) rather than a simple "chemically" disproportionated R(Mn^{2+}Mn^{4+})O_3 phase. New phase does nucleate as a result of the charge transfer (CT) instability and evolves from the self-trapped CT excitons, or specific EH-dimers, which seem to be a precursor of both insulating and metallic-like ferromagnetic phases observed in manganites. We arrive at highly frustrated system of triplet (e_g^2)^3A_{2g} bosons moving in a lattice formed by hole Mn^{4+} centers. Starting with different experimental data we have reproduced a typical temperature dependence of the volume fraction of high-temperature mixed-valent EHBL phase. We argue that a slight nonisovalent substitution, photo-irradiation, external pressure or magnetic field gives rise to an electronic phase separation with a nucleation or an overgrowth of EH-droplets. Such a scenario provides a comprehensive explanation of numerous puzzling properties observed in parent and nonisovalently doped manganite LaMnO_3 including an intriguing manifestation of superconducting fluctuations.

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