Pressure-induced melting of the orbital polaron lattice in La1-xSrxMnO3

Abstract

We report on the pressure effects on the orbital polaron lattice in the lightly doped manganites $\mathrm{L}{\mathrm{a}}_{1-\mathrm{x}}\mathrm{S}{\mathrm{r}}_{\mathrm{x}}\mathrm{Mn}{\mathrm{O}}_3$, with $x\sim 1/8$. The dependence of the orbital polaron lattice on $negative$ chemical pressure is studied by substituting Pr for La in $(\mathrm{L}{\mathrm{a}}_{1-\mathrm{y}}\mathrm{P}{\mathrm{r}}_{\mathrm{y}}{)}_{7/8}\mathrm{S}{\mathrm{r}}_{1/8}\mathrm{Mn}{\mathrm{O}}_3$. In addition, we have studied its hydrostatic pressure dependence in $(\mathrm{L}{\mathrm{a}}_{0.9}\mathrm{P}{\mathrm{r}}_{0.1}{)}_{7/8}\mathrm{S}{\mathrm{r}}_{1/8}\mathrm{Mn}{\mathrm{O}}_3$. Our results strongly indicate that the hopping $t$ significantly contributes to the stabilization of the orbital polaron lattice and that the orbital polarons are ferromagnetic objects which get stabilized by local double exchange processes. The analysis of short range orbital correlations and the verification of the Grueneisen scaling by hard x-ray, specific heat and thermal expansion data reinforces our conclusions.

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• Orbital polaron lattice formation in lightly doped La1-xSrxMnO3

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