Magnetic-field cycling induced anomalous irreversibility in resistivity of charge-ordered manganites

TL;DR

This study investigates how magnetic-field cycling causes anomalous irreversibility in resistivity of charge-ordered manganites, revealing temperature-dependent effects linked to metamagnetic transitions and magnetic training.

Contribution

It demonstrates the temperature-dependent irreversibility of resistivity in charge-ordered manganites due to magnetic-field cycling, highlighting the role of metamagnetic transitions and magnetic training effects.

Findings

Resistivity shows irreversible behavior with lower values below 70 K after field cycling.

Above 70 K, resistivity irreversibly increases after field cycling, despite reversible magnetization.

Irreversibility depends systematically on temperature and magnetic field strength.

Abstract

The rare-earth ions (RE = Eu, Dy Ho, Tm, Y) substituted charge-ordered antiferromagnetic manganites, Pr0.45RE0.05Ca0.5MnO3, were studied for the magnetic and the transport properties in the presence of external magnetic-fields of up to 14 Tesla. Regardless of the intrinsic magnetic property of RE ions, all the compounds exhibit successive step-like metamagnetic transitions at low temperatures, which are strongly correlated to their electronic transitions. At any fixed temperature in two different temperature-regimes, we observed contrary effects of the magnetic-field cycling on the resistivity of these manganites, namely, i) in the low temperature regime (<70 K), the resistivity was irreversible showing lower values than initial after a magnetic-field cycle was over, which is consistent with the irreversible magnetization, and ii) in a temperature regime above 70 K, the resistivity is irreversible with noticeably higher values than initial, whereas the magnetization was found to be reversible. For the latter case, we further show that this irreversibility of resistivity systematically depends on the temperature and the magnitude of applied magnetic-field. These results suggest that the observed resistivity behavior originated from the magnetic-field induced metamagnetic transitions and training effect.