Antiferromagnetic Order in Disorder-Induced Insulating Phase of SrRu_1-xMn_xO₃ (0.4<x<0.6)

2005/03/31 by M. Yokoyama, C. Satoh, A. Saitou +4
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.str-el

paper · pdf · doi:10.1143/jpsj.74.1706

published as J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 74 (2005) 1706 · 4 pages, 4 figures

arxiv created 2005/06/27 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We have performed the powder neutron diffraction measurements on the solid solutions of SrRu_1-xMn_xO₃, and found that the itinerant ferromagnetic order observed in pure SrRuO₃ changes into the C-type antiferromagnetic (AF) order with nearly localized d electrons in the intermediate Mn concentration between x=0.4 and 0.6. With increasing x, the AF moment is strongly enhanced from 1.1 mB (x=0.4) to 2.6 mB (x=0.6), which is accompanied by the elongation of the tetragonal c/a ratio. These results suggest that the substitution of Mn for Ru suppresses the itinerant character of the d electrons, and induces the superexchange interaction through the compression in the c plane. We have also found that the magnetic and transport properties observed in our tetragonal samples are quite similar to those of recently reported orthorhombic ones.

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