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Deutsche Physikalische Gessellschaft IOP Institute of Physics

Magnetic instabilities and phase diagram of the double-exchange model in infinite dimensions

R S Fishman1, F Popescu2, G Alvarez3, J Moreno4, Th Maier3 and M Jarrell5

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Dynamical mean-field theory is used to study the magnetic instabilities and phase diagram of the double-exchange (DE) model with Hund's coupling JH > 0 in infinite dimensions. In addition to ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AF) phases, the DE model also supports a broad class of short-range ordered (SRO) states with extensive entropy and short-range magnetic order. For any site on the Bethe lattice, the correlation parameter q of an SRO state is given by the average q = lang sin2i/2)rang, where θi is the angle between any spin and its neighbours. Unlike the FM (q = 0) and AF (q = 1) transitions, the transition temperature of an SRO state with 0 < q < 1 cannot be obtained from the magnetic susceptibility. But a solution of the coupled Green's functions in the weak-coupling limit indicates that an SRO state always has a higher transition temperature than the AF for all fillings p below 1 and even has a higher transition temperature than the FM for 0.26 ≤ p ≤ 0.39. For 0.39 < p < 0.73, where both the FM and AF phases are unstable for small JH, an SRO phase has a nonzero transition temperature except close to p = 0.5. As JH increases, the SRO transition temperature eventually vanishes and the FM phase dominates the phase diagram. For small JH, the T = 0 phase diagram of the DE model is greatly simplified by the presence of the SRO phase. An SRO phase is found to have lower energy than either the FM or AF phases for 0.26 ≤ p < 1. Phase separation (PS) disappears as JH → 0 but appears for any nonzero coupling. For fillings near p = 1, PS occurs between an AF with p = 1 and either an SRO or a FM phase. The stability of an SRO state at T = 0 can be understood by examining the interacting density-of-states, which is gapped for any nonzero JH in an AF but only when JH exceeds a critical value in an SRO state.


PACS

75.30.Kz Magnetic phase boundaries (including magnetic transitions, metamagnetism, etc.)

75.30.Cr Saturation moments and magnetic susceptibilities

75.40.-s Critical-point effects, specific heats, short-range order

75.20.Hr Local moment in compounds and alloys; Kondo effect, valence fluctuations, heavy fermions

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Dates

Issue 7 (July 2006)

Received 11 April 2006

Published 18 July 2006



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