Small-scale phase separation in doped anisotropic antiferromagnets

Abstract

We analyze the possibility of the nanoscale phase separation manifesting itself in the formation of ferromagnetic (FM) polarons (FM droplets) in the general situation of doped anisotropic three- and two-dimensional antiferromagnets. In these cases, we calculate the shape of the most energetically favorable droplets. We show that the binding energy and the volume of a FM droplet in the three-dimensional (3D) case depend only upon two universal parameters $\bar{J}=(J_x+J_y+J_z)S^2$ and $t_{eff}=(t_x{t}_y{t}_z{)}^{1/3}$, where $\bar{J}$ and $t_{eff}$ are effective antiferromagnetic (AFM) exchange and hopping integrals, respectively. In the two-dimensional (2D) case, these parameters have the form $\bar{J}=(J_x+J_y)S^2$ and $t_{eff}=(t_x{t}_y{)}^{1/2}$. The most favorable shape of a ferromagnetic droplet corresponds to an ellipse in the 2D case and to an ellipsoid in the 3D case.

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