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Variation of charge/orbital ordering in layered manganites Pr1-xCa1+xMnO4 investigated by transmission electron microscopy

X. Z. Yu, R. Mathieu, T. Arima, Y. Kaneko, J. P. He, M. Uchida, T. Asaka, T. Nagai, K. Kimoto, A. Asamitsu, Y. Matsui, Y. Tokura

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0703738

Abstract

Structural features of the charge/orbital ordering (CO/OO) in single-layered manganites Pr1-xCa1+xMnO4 have been investigated systematically by transmission electron microscopy. Analyses of electron diffraction patterns as well as dark-field images have revealed that the CO/OO shows a striking asymmetric behavior as the hole doping x deviates from x = 0.5. The modulation wavenumber linearly decreases with increasing x in the over-hole-doped (x > 0.5) crystals, while much less dependent on x in the under-hole-doped (x < 0.5) crystals. A temperature-induced incommensurate-commensurate crossover is observed in 0.35 < x < 0.5 and x = 0.65. The correlation length of CO/OO in x = 0.3 was proven to become shorter than that in x > 0.3.

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