Tunneling Spectra of NbSe3 in Magnetic Fields

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 1013-1019
Author(s):  
He Haifeng ◽  
Wang Yunping ◽  
Li Shanlin ◽  
Jing Xiunian ◽  
Li Guohong ◽  
...  

The charge density wave gaps of NbSe 3 have been carefully determinated by tunneling spectroscopy. In contrast to earlier work, the gap parameter associated with the 59 K transition obtained in the present measurements is very close to the mean field value. The gap structures for both the 145 K and 59 K transitions are found to be essentially independent of the applied magnetic field H. The present findings strongly suggest that the anomalous magnetotransport properties of the material originate from some other mechanism than a H-induced improvement of Fermi surface nesting.

1989 ◽  
Vol 40 (13) ◽  
pp. 9312-9314 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Surendranath ◽  
C. Bansal ◽  
M. Greenblatt ◽  
W. H. McCarroll

2005 ◽  
Vol 71 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Laverock ◽  
S. B. Dugdale ◽  
Zs. Major ◽  
M. A. Alam ◽  
N. Ru ◽  
...  

1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 155 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. Goodenough

In the Ln1-xAxMnO3 pseudoperovskites in which Ln is a lanthanide and A an alkaline-earth atom, an intrinsic colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) occurs in an O-orthorhombic phase near an O′-orthorhombic/O-orthorhombic phase boundary. For a fixed ratio Mn(IV)/Mn = 0·3, the transition through the O phase from localised-electron behaviour and orbital ordering in the O′ phase to itinerant-electron behaviour in an R-rhombohedral phase occurs with increasing geometric tolerance factor t ≡ ⟨A-O⟩/√2⟨Mn-O⟩, where ⟨A-O⟩ and ⟨Mn-O⟩ are mean equilibrium bond lengths. The CMR occurs in the temperature interval Tc ≤ T < Ts where there is a segregation, via cooperative oxygen displacements, into a Mn(IV)-rich ferromagnetic phase imbedded in a paramagnetic phase. The volume of the ferromagnetic, more conductive clusters increases from below to beyond a percolation threshold in response, above Tc, to an applied magnetic field and, below Tc, to a Weiss molecular field. In the O phase, the magnetic transition at Tc decreases on the exchange of 18O/16O and increases under hydrostatic pressure. Charge and orbital ordering below a Tco ≤ Tc is found in compositions with x ≈ ⅛ or x ≈ ½. With x ≈ ½, the charge-ordered phase CE is tetragonal and antiferromagnetic. An applied magnetic field stabilises the ferromagnetic, conductive phase relative to the insulator phase CE to give a second type of intrinsic CMR. For x ≈ 0·3, there is no static charge and orbital ordering; but for smaller t, strong electron-lattice coupling gives a ‘bad metal’ behaviour below Tc indicative of a dynamic phase segregation as in a traveling charge-density wave. In La1-xCaxMnO3 with ½ ≤ x ≤ ⅞, segregation of the CE x = 0·5 phase and the all-Mn(IV) x = 1 phase has been reported to take the form of a static charge-density wave. The origins of this complex behaviour are discussed.


Author(s):  
Haiping Chen ◽  
Zhongti Sun

The formation mechanism of charge density wave (CDW) order in layered systems was belived to arise from phonon-electron coupling and electronic structure instability induced by Fermi surface nesting. Herein, we...


1991 ◽  
Vol 43 (9) ◽  
pp. 7254-7262 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. M. Tritt ◽  
A. C. Ehrlich ◽  
D. J. Gillespie ◽  
G. X. Tessema

Science ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 252 (5002) ◽  
pp. 96-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. -H. WHANGBO ◽  
E. CANADELL ◽  
P. FOURY ◽  
J. -P. POUGET

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