Dilution of 2D antiferromagnetism by Mn site substitution in La1Sr2Mn2-xAlxO7
Abstract
We report the effect of Al substitution on the Mn site of the bilayered half doped manganite La1Sr2Mn2O7. This substitution dilutes the magnetically active Mn-O-Mn network without introducing an appreciable distortion in the lattice and ionic considerations leads to a predominant reduction of Mn4+ with increasing Al. The rate of fall of the long range antiferromagnetic transition temperature as a function of substitution is seen to match well with established quasi 2D Heisenberg systems indicating that the nature of magnetic interactions in this quasi 2-D system is of the short range Heisenberg type. The magnetic contribution of the specific heat estimated using Fisher's relation could be fitted with a function incorporating the presence of a gapped Fermi surface appropriate for this type of systems. The resistivity was seen to increase as a function of substitution due to the weakening of the double exchange within the ferromagnetic layers of these A type of antiferromagnets and justifiably, in the paramagnetic region the data could be fitted to Mott's equation for the variable range hopping of polarons in 2 dimensions.
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