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dc.contributor.authorNanda, B. R. K.eng
dc.contributor.authorSatpathy, Sashi Sekhar, 1956-eng
dc.date.issued2009eng
dc.description.abstractThe effect of uniaxial strain on electronic structure and magnetism in LaMnO3 is studied from a model Hamiltonian that illustrates the competition between the Jahn-Teller, super exchange, and double exchange interactions. We retain in our model the three main octahedral distortions (Q1,Q2, and Q3), which couple to the Mn (eg) electrons. Our results show the ground state to be a type A antiferromagnetic (AFM) insulating state for the unstrained case, consistent with experiments. With tensile strain (stretching along the c axis), the ground state changes into a ferromagnetic and eventually into a type G0 AFM structure, while with compressive strain, we find the type A switching into a type G structure. The orbital ordering, which displays the well known checkerboard x2−1/y2−1 structure for the unstrained case, retains more or less the same character for compressive strain, while changing into the z2 − 1 character for tensile strains. While Q1 and Q3 are fixed by the strain components "xx and "zz in our model, the magnitude of the in-plane distortion mode (Q2), which varies to minimize the total energy, slowly diminishes with tensile strain, completely disappearing as the FM state is entered. Within our model, the FM state is metallic, while the three AFM states are insulating.eng
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the U. S. Department of Energy through Grant No. DE-FG02-00ER45818.eng
dc.identifier.citationarXiv:0911.0683v1eng
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10355/7216eng
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.publisherarXiveng
dc.relation.ispartofcollectionUniversity of Missouri--Columbia. College of Arts and Sciences. Department of Physics and Astronomy. Physics and Astronomy publicationseng
dc.source.urihttp://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0911/0911.0683v1.pdfeng
dc.subjectcondensed mattereng
dc.subjectmaterials scienceeng
dc.subject.lcshAntiferromagnetismeng
dc.subject.lcshMagnetismeng
dc.titleMagnetic and Orbital Order in LaMnO3 under Uniaxial Strain: A Model Studyeng
dc.typeArticleeng


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