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High Temperature Spin-glass-like Transition in La0.57Sr0.33MnO3 Nanofibers near the Curie Point

  • Ruie Lu
  • , Sen Yang
  • , Yitong Li
  • , Kaiyun Cheng
  • , Yun Jiang
  • , Bi Fu
  • , Yin Zhang
  • , Chao Zhou
  • , Minwei Xu
  • , Xuan Joe Zhou

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Abstract

<p> The glassy transition of superparamagnetic (SPM) (r &lt; r0) nanoparticle systems usually occurs at a very low temperature that greatly limits its application to high temperatures. In this work, we report a spin-glass-like (SGL) behavior near the Curie point (TC), i.e., T0 = 330 K, in La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 (LSMO) nanofibers (NFs) composed of nanoparticles beyond the SPM size (r &gg; r0), resulting in a significant increase of the glass transition temperature. This SGL transition near the TC of bulk LSMO can be explained to be the scenario of locally ordered clusters embedded in a disordered host, in which the assembly of nanoparticles has a magnetic core&ndash;shell model driven by surface spin glass. The presence of a surface spin glass of nanoparticles was proved by the Almeida&ndash;Thouless line &delta;Tf &prop; H2/3, exchange bias, and reduced saturation magnetization of the NF system. Composite dynamics were found &ndash; that is, both the SPM and the super-spin-glass (SSG) behavior are found in such an NF system. The bifurcation of the zero-field-cooled (ZFC) and field-cooled (FC) magnetization vs. temperature curves at the ZFC peak, and the flatness of FC magnetization involve SSG, while the frequency-dependent ac susceptibility anomaly follows the Vogel&ndash;Fulcher law that implies weak dipole interactions of the SPM model. This finding can help us to find a way to search for high temperature spin glass materials.</p>
Original languageAmerican English
JournalPhysical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Volume19
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 16 2017

Disciplines

  • Electrical and Computer Engineering

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