Browsing by Author "Mirone, A"

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    Doping and temperature dependence of Mn 3d states in A-site ordered manganites
    (American Physical Society, 2010-12-06) García-Fernández, M; Staub, U; Bodenthin, Y; Pomjakushin, V; Mirone, A; Fernández-Rodríguez, J; Scagnoli, V; Mulders, AM; Lawrence, SM; Pomjakushina, E
    We present a systematic study of the electronic structure in A-site ordered manganites as function of doping and temperature. The energy dependencies observed with soft x-ray resonant diffraction (SXRD) at the Mn L2,3 edges are compared with structural investigations using neutron powder diffraction as well as with cluster calculations. The crystal structures obtained with neutron powder diffraction reflect the various orbital and charge ordered phases, and show an increase in the Mn-O-Mn bond angle as function of doping and temperature. Cluster calculations show that the observed spectral changes in SXRD as a function of doping are more pronounced than expected from an increase in bandwitdh due to the increase in Mn-O-Mn bond angle and are best described by holes that are distributed at the neighboring oxygen ions. These holes are not directly added to the Mn 3d shell but centered at the Mn site. In contrast, the spectral changes in SXRD as function of temperature are best described by an increase of magnetic correlations. This demonstrates the strong correlations between orbitals and magnetic moments of the 3d states. © 2010, American Physical Society
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    Magnetic and electronic co states in the layered cobaltate GdBaCo2O5.5-x
    (American Physical Society, 2008-08) García-Fernández, M; Scagnoli, V; Staub, U; Mulders, AM; Janousch, M; Bodenthin, Y; Meister, D; Patterson, BD; Mirone, A; Tanaka, Y; Nakamura, T; Grenier, S; Huang, YJ; Conder, K
    We have performed nonresonant x-ray diffraction, resonant soft and hard x-ray magnetic diffraction, soft x-ray absorption, and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism measurements to clarify the electronic and magnetic high-spin (HS) state at the states of the Co3+, ions in GdBaCo2O5.5. Our data are consistent with a Co-Py(3+) pyramidal sites and a Co-Oc(3+), low-spin (LS) state at the octahedral sites. The structural distortion with a doubling of the a axis (2a(p)X2a(p)X2a(p) cell) shows alternating elongations and contractions of the pyramids, and indicates that the metal-insulator transition is associated with orbital order in the t(2g) orbitals of the Co-Py(3+) HS state. This distortion corresponds to an alternating ordering of xz and yz orbitals along the a and c axes for the Co-Py(3+). The orbital ordering and pyramidal distortion lead to deformation of the octahedra but the Co-Oc(3+) LS state does not allow an orbital order to occur for the Co-Oc(3+), ions. The soft x-ray magnetic diffraction results indicate that the magnetic moments are aligned in the ab plane but are not parallel to the crystallographic a or b axes. The orbital order and the doubling of the magnetic unit cell along the c axis support a noncollinear magnetic structure. The x-ray magnetic circular dichroism data indicate that there is a large orbital magnetic contribution to the total ordered Co moment. © 2008, American Physical Society