Magnetic Reconstructions in B-site Doped Manganites

TL;DR

This study investigates how magnetic interactions from B-site dopants influence magnetic phase reconstructions in manganites, revealing that local magnetic interactions, rather than valence changes, drive phase behavior.

Contribution

It demonstrates that magnetic reconstructions around B-site dopants, driven by modified exchange interactions, are key to understanding phase competition in doped manganites.

Findings

Magnetic reconstructions are crucial for phase control.

Valence change scenario is insufficient to explain phases.

Modified exchange interactions dictate magnetic phases.

Abstract

The magnetic nature of the B-site dopants controls the magnetic phases in B-site doped manganites RE$_{1-x}$AE$_{x}$Mn$_{1-\eta}$B$_{\eta}$O$_3$. Different B-site dopants of equal valence, doped into the same reference manganite, lead to different magnetic phases at low temperature, which can not be explained using the valence change scenario. We focus on trivalent B-site dopants in CE-CO-OO-I manganites at half-filling $x=0.50$ to study the role of magnetic interactions between the B-site dopants and the neighboring Mn-sites by using a two-orbital double-exchange model including super-exchange interactions, Jahn-Teller lattice distortions and substitutional disorder in two dimensions. We show that the magnetic reconstructions around the B-site dopants due to the modified double-exchange and super-exchange interactions control the phase competition in B-site doped manganites.