Reentrant metallic transition at a temperature above Tc at the breakdown of cooperative Jahn-Teller orbital order in perovskite manganites

Abstract

We report an interesting reentrant metallic resistivity pattern beyond a characteristic temperature T* which is higher than other such characteristic transition temperatures like T(c)(Curie point), T(N) (Neel point), T(CO) (charge order onset point) or T(OO) (orbital order onset point) in a range of rare-erath perovskite manganites (RE(1-x)A(x)MnO(3); RE = La, Nd, Y; A = Sr, Ca; x = 0.0-0.5). Such a behavior is normally observed in doped manganites with doping level (x) higher than the critical doping level x(c) (= 0.17-0.22) required for the metallic ground state to emerge and hence in a system where cooperative Jahn-Teller orbital order has already undergone a breakdown. However, the observation made in the La(1-x)Ca(x)MnO(3) (x = 0.0-0.5) series turns out to be an exception to this general trend.