ヤマガミ ヒロシ   YAMAGAMI HIROSHI
  山上 浩志
   所属   京都産業大学  理学部 物理科学科
   職種   教授
発行・発表の年月 2014/06/23
形態種別 研究論文
査読 査読あり
標題 Thickness-dependent ferromagnetic metal to paramagnetic insulator transition in La0.6 Sr0.4 MnO3 thin films studied by x-ray magnetic circular dichroism
執筆形態 その他
掲載誌名 Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
巻・号・頁 89(23)
著者・共著者 G. Shibata,K. Yoshimatsu,E. Sakai,V. R. Singh,V. K. Verma,K. Ishigami,T. Harano,T. Kadono,Y. Takeda,T. Okane,Y. Saitoh,H. Yamagami,A. Sawa,H. Kumigashira,M. Oshima,T. Koide,A. Fujimori
概要 Metallic transition-metal oxides undergo a metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) as the film thickness decreases across a critical thickness of several monolayers (MLs), but its driving mechanism remains controversial. We have studied the thickness-dependent MIT of the ferromagnetic metal La0.6Sr0.4MnO3 by x-ray absorption spectroscopy and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism. As the film thickness was decreased across the critical thickness of the MIT (6-8 ML), a gradual decrease of the ferromagnetic signals and a concomitant increase of paramagnetic signals were observed, while the Mn valence abruptly decreased towards Mn3+. These observations suggest that the ferromagnetic phase gradually and most likely inhomogeneously turns into the paramagnetic phase and both phases abruptly become insulating at the critical thickness. © 2014 American Physical Society.
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.235123
ISSN 1098-0121/1550-235X