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Spin-controlled Mott-Hubbard bands in LaMnO3 probed by optical ellipsometry

N. N. Kovaleva, A. V. Boris, C. Bernhard, A. Kulakov, A. Pimenov, A. M. Balbashov, G. Khaliullin, B. Keimer

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0405509

Abstract

Spectral ellipsometry has been used to determine the dielectric function of an untwinned crystal of LaMnO3 in the spectral range 0.5-5.6 eV at temperatures 50 K < T < 300 K. A pronounced redistribution of spectral weight is found at the Neel temperature TN = 140 K. The anisotropy of the spectral weight transfer matches the magnetic ordering pattern. A superexchange model quantitatively describes spectral weight transfer induced by spin correlations. This analysis implies that the lowest-energy transitions around 2 eV are intersite d-d transitions, and that LaMnO3 is a Mott-Hubbard insulator.

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