Continuous first order orbital order-disorder transition in Nd1-xCaxMnO3

Abstract

The nature of the cooperative Jahn-Teller (JT) transition accompanied by orbital order-disorder in Nd1-xCaxMnO3 has been studied by high temperature (300 - 1200K) synchrotron and laboratory X-ray powder diffraction in the low doping region (0<x<0.1). For very low doping a large temperature range of phase coexistence associated with a first-order transition has been observed, resembling a martensitic transformation. The transition appears continuous because of a gradual evolution of the volume fractions of the phases over a broad temperature interval. The first-order nature of the transition and the phase coexistence is suppressed with increasing of doping.

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