Intermediate Valence Model for Tl_{2}Mn_{2}O_{7}

TL;DR

This paper proposes an intermediate valence two-band model to explain the transport and magnetoresistance properties of Tl_{2}Mn_{2}O_{7}, aligning well with experimental data and offering a new perspective on its electronic behavior.

Contribution

It introduces a novel intermediate valence model for Tl_{2}Mn_{2}O_{7} to explain its transport properties and colossal magnetoresistance.

Findings

Model's results agree qualitatively with experiments

Supports intermediate valence fluctuations as key mechanism

Provides new insights into pyrochlore manganite behavior

Abstract

There have been speculations about the need to find a new mechanism to explain the colossal magnetoresistance exhibited by this material, having pyrochlore structure and thus differing structurally and electronically from the manganites. We will report here our transport results based on a two band model, with conduction electrons and intermediate valence ions fluctuating between two magnetic configurations. The model has been previously employed to understand transport and thermodynamical properties of intermediate valence Tm compounds and, in its periodic version, to analize the phase diagram. The results obtained with this model for the transport properties of Tl_{2}Mn_{2}O_{7} are in good qualitative agreement with the experimental results.