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Temperature-Dependent Pseudogaps in Colossal Magnetoresistive Oxides

T. Saitoh, D. S. Dessau, Y. Moritomo, T. Kimura, Y. Tokura, N. Hamada

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/9911189

Abstract

Direct electronic structure measurements of a variety of the colossal magnetoresistive oxides show the presence of a pseudogap at the Fermi energy EF which drastically suppresses the electron spectral function at EF. The pseudogap is a strong function of the layer number of the samples (sample dimensionality) and is strongly temperature dependent, with the changes beginning at the ferromagnetic transition temperature Tc. These trends are consistent with the major transport trends of the CMR oxides, implying a direct relationship between the pseudogap and transport, including the "colossal" conductivity changes which occur across Tc. The k-dependence of the temperature-dependent effects indicate that the pseudogap observed in these compounds is not due to the extrinsic effects proposed by Joynt.

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