Direct experimental evidence of physical origin of electronic phase separation in manganites

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 117; no. 13; pp. 7090 - 7094
• Main Authors: Miao, Tian, Deng, Lina, Yang, Wenting, Ni, Jinyang, Zheng, Changlin, Etheridge, Joanne, Wang, Shasha, Liu, Hao, Lin, Hanxuan, Yu, Yang, Shi, Qian, Cai, Peng, Zhu, Yinyan, Yang, Tieying, Zhang, Xingmin, Gao, Xingyu, Xi, Chuanying, Tian, Mingliang, Wu, Xiaoshan, Xiang, Hongjun, Dagotto, Elbio, Yin, Lifeng, Shen, Jian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 31.03.2020
• Subjects: Alloying; External stimuli; Manganites; Phase diagrams; Phase separation; Physical Sciences; Spatial distribution; Superlattices; tricolor superlattice; chemical ordering; electronic phase separation; manganites

Electronic phase separation in complex oxides is the inhomogeneous spatial distribution of electronic phases, involving length scales much larger than those of structural defects or nonuniform distribution of chemical dopants. While experimental efforts focused on phase separation and established it...