UITM SHAH ALAM

FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE

SOLID STATE PHYSICS (PHY 592)

Journal Summary

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION MECHANISM FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF CHARGE

ORDERING IN Pr0.5MnO3 MANGANITE SYSTEM

NAME FATIN NUR SYAHIRAH BINTI AZHAR

STUDENT’S ID 2019728307

GROUP AS2514D1

DATE OF SUBMISSION DECEMBER 31, 2020

DATE OF JOURNAL’S OCTOBER 14, 2020

APRROVAL

LECTURER’S NAME DR NORAZILA IBRAHIM

 Research Objective
In this article, the scope of the study / the objective of the study as reported
by Anupama Swain is to investigate the charge-order suppression and its crossover
in Pr0.5Ca0.5Mno3 (PCMO) manganite system with varying particle size and applied
magnetic field.

 Problem Statement
 In the introduction section, Anupama Swain reported that the discovery for colossal
magnetoresistance and associated effects in this system make it suitable for
different application of new generation spintronic devices.
 Next, the presence of equal Mn3+ and Mn4+ ions in small bandwidth manganite
system is interesting due to its intrinsic alignment of these atoms will lead to
ordering in charge and orbital in the system.
 The CO state in the manganite is reported to be maximum for an equal number of
Mn3+ and Mn4+ wherein the JT effect involving Mn 3+ ions results in the distortion
of MnO6 octahedral and favors the localization of charge carriers by weakening the
DE interaction.
 The alternative arrangement of Mn3+ and MN4+ ions may lead to strong Coulomb
interaction between electrons causes the localization.

 Physics Properties
 Magnetic Properties
Magnetic property refers to the response of a spin of charge carrier /electron
to an applied magnetic field. From this article, we found that the kondo effect is
originally dilute magnetic alloys, where the interaction between localized spin of
magnetic impurity and the conduction electron in metal. In the present investigation,
the coexistence of FM and CO-AFM magnetic multiphase is an aggregate of
nanoscale spin disorder or antiferromagnetic clusters. Further, with application of
magnetic field, the P0 is decreasing due to orientation of the spins and reduction in
d0 main boundaries. As the thermal fluctuation is less in this region, the spin
dependent scattering is dominating compared to electron-electron and electron-
phonon scattering contributions. It is observed that the phonon contribution is along
c direction in basal plane while the spin scattering contribution is along b axis in
apical position.
  Charge Ordering
From the article, it found that an attempt has been made to quantify the
charge ordering as magnetization quotient by considering the magnetization at CO
temperature and room temperature. Fig. 5(b) shows the variation of calculated
magnetization quotient percentage with particle size. A sharp decrease in the MQ%
is observed around 70 nm particle size indicating the suppression of CO. As we
decrease the particle size, from bulk to nano scale down to approximately 20 nm.
the ferromagnetic phase approximately increases from 24% to 74%.

 Electric Properties
Electric field refers to the response of a material to an applied magnetic
field. From this article, we found that the applied magnetic field orients the
magnetic moments by suppressing the surface spin fluctuations thereby reducing
electrical resistivity. Then, it is observed that the CO% is increasing with
increasing particle size and also decrease with increase of the applied magnetic
field. With applied magnetic field, the Ea. is found to decrease to induced
metallicity via enhanced DE mechanism. Moreover, fig(5c) obviously shows the
magnetization is still lower than 3.5 µB even at 90 Ko e (9 T) applied magnetic
field. Furthermore, the temperature at which shallow minimum occurring is
designated at Tmin which increase with increase in particle size and found to
decrease with increasing with applied magnetic field.
 Main Scientific Finding

In the introduction section, Anupama Swain reported that the presence of an

equal number of Mn 3+
and Mn4+ ions in small bandwidth manganate system is
interesting due to its intrinsic alignment of these atoms will lead to ordering in charge
and orbitals in the system. In this article, the scope of study or objective of study
reported by Anupama Swain is to investigate the charge order suppression and its
crossover in Pr0.5Ca0.5Mno3 (PCMO) manganite system with varying particle size and
applied magnetic field. It is observed that CO% is increasing with increasing particle
size and also decrease with increase applied magnetic field. From the article, they
have demonstrated that the crossover of the long-range CO suppression in PMCO
manganite system by reducing particle size and applied magnetic field through
transport study. It is found that the suppression of CO is occurring around critical
particle size 70 nm and an applied field of 4T. The observed behavior may be
attributed to prominent surface spin disorder due to large surface to volume ratio.