2003/01/23 by P. Postorino, A. Congeduti, P. Dore +7 · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials #Rare-earth and actinide compounds #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.91.175501
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 175501 (2003) · 8 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2003/01/23 · openalex publication_date 2003/10/20 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
An extended temperature and pressure-dependent investigation is carried out on a La0.75Ca0.25MnO3 sample exploiting the infrared absorption technique coupled to a diamond anvil cell. The pressure dependence of the insulator to metal transition temperature T(IM) is determined for the first time up to 11.2 GPa. The T(IM)(P) curve we propose to model the present data has an exponential-like behavior with an associated characteristic pressure P* playing the role of a decay constant. It is found that the equivalence between an external and an internal (chemical) pressure holds over a limited range of pressure, namely, P< or =2P*. Moreover, a certain universality character is associated with the proposed model curve in its ability to account for a large class of low-disorder manganites characterized by intermediate electron-phonon coupling.