Canted Magnetic Ground State of Quarter-Doped Manganites $R_{0.75}$Ca${}_{0.25}$MnO${}_3$ ($R$ = Y, Tb, Dy, Ho, and Er)

Abstract

Polycrystalline samples of the quarter-doped manganites $R_{0.75}$Ca${}_{0.25}$MnO${}_3$ ($R$ = Y, Tb, Dy, Ho, and Er) were studied by X-ray diffraction and AC/DC susceptibility measurements. All five samples are orthorhombic and exhibit similar magnetic properties: enhanced ferromagnetism below $T_1$ ($\sim 80$ K) and a spin glass (SG) state below $T_{SG}$ ($\sim 30$ K). With increasing $R^{3+}$ ionic size, both $T_1$ and $T_{SG}$ generally increase. The single crystal neutron diffraction results on Tb${}_{0.75}$Ca${}_{0.25}$MnO${}_3$ revealed that the SG state is mainly composed of a short-range ordered version of a novel canted (i.e. noncollinear) antiferromagnetic spin state. Furthermore, calculations based on the double exchange model for quarter-doped manganites reveal that this new magnetic phase provides a transition state between the ferromagnetic state and the theoretically predicted spin-orthogonal stripe phase.

10 pages, 10 figures. Submitted to Physical Review B

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