h-ErMnO3 absorbance, reflectivity and, emissivity in the THz to mid-infrared from 2 K to 1700 K: carrier screening, Fröhlich resonance, small polarons, and bipolarons
arXiv:2010.06341 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.102.134305
Abstract
We report the temperature dependent THz to mid-infrared response of hexagonal-ErMnO3 using absorption, reflectivity, and emissivity techniques from 2 K to 1700 K. At low temperatures, lowest frequency vibrational modes coexist with paramagnon excitations associated with well-defined crystal field Rare Earth pure magnetic replicas in an intriguing phonon-magnetic convergence. Increasing the temperature, a number of vibrational bands close to the space group predicted undergo profile broadening and softening. In particular, a distinctive set of bands in the 288-329 cm-1 (300 K) range has a component whose profile is carrier screened becoming nearly fully blurred in the intermediate phase between ~830 K and ~1500 K. Below TC ~830 K this asymmetric band further splits as spin phonon interaction and the tripling of the unit cell takes place revealing a delicate balance of long- and short-range interactions. Ambient Raman scattering brings up evidence of a Fröhlich resonance due to Coulomb interactions between carriers and the macroscopic field of the longitudinal optical phonon mode. We found it is dynamically correlated to the hexagonal c-axis negative thermal expansion. Mid-infrared (MIR) optical conductivity show that also plays a role in small polarons and mediates in high temperature bipolarones.At higher temperatures a low frequency Drude contribution is triggered by electron hopping signaling an insulator-metal phase transition at ~1600 K while the MIR response suggests coexistence between single small polarons and bipolarons. We draw a parallel with improper ferroelectrics sustaining a lattice incommensurate intermediate phase and unit cell tripling. We argue that in the h-RMnO3 (R=Rare Earth, Y) family of compounds the intermediate phase be considered incommensurate with onset at TINC ~1500 K and ferroelectric lock-in at TC ~830 K delimiting this regime in h-ErMnO3.
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