Abstract

The effects of A-site cational size mismatch (A-site disorder) on the stability of charge-ordered states and phase separated phase in a series of manganites with constant A-site ionic average radii ⟨rA⟩=1.18Å but different A-site ionic size mismatches σ2 are experimentally investigated. It is revealed that the charge/orbital ordered antiferromagnetic ground state becomes destabilized and eventually collapses into coexisting of the predominant ferromagnetic metal (FMM) state and short-range charge/orbital ordered state with increasing σ2, resulting in enhanced colossal magnetoresistance. However, further increasing A-site disorder will suppress the FMM state and seem to favor a cluster-glass insulating state due to the severe electronic localization.

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