Interfacial Phase Competition Induced Kondo-like Effect in Manganite-insulator Composites

Abstract

Kondo-like effect, namely the upturn of resistivity at low temperatures, has been observed in perovskite manganite when nonmagnetic insulators were doped as the secondary phase. In this paper, the low-temperature resistivity upturn effect was argued to be originated from the interfacial magnetic phase reconstruction. Heisenberg spin lattices have been simulated using Monte Carlo method to reveal the phase competition around the secondary phase boundary, namely the manganite-insulator boundary behaves a weak antiferromagnetic tendency. And the resistor-network model based on the double-exchange conductive mechanism indeed reproduces the low-temperature resistivity upturn effect. Our work provide a reasonable physical mechanism to understand novel transport behaviors in micro-structures of correlated electron systems.

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