Abstract
The electrical and magnetic transport properties of the La 0.67− x Eu x Ca 0.33MnO 3 system exhibit lowering of insulator to metal and paramagnetic to ferromagnetic transition temperature ( T C) with the increase of Eu concentration in addition to possessing CMR property. The temperature variation of electrical resistivity and magnetic susceptibility for x=0.21 is found to have two distinct regions in the paramagnetic state for T> T P; one with the localization of lattice polaron in the high-temperature region ( T>1.5 T P) satisfying the dynamics of variable range hopping (VRH) model and the other being the combination of the spin and lattice polarons in the region T P< T<1.5 T P. The resistivity variation with temperature and magnetic field, the cusp in the resistivity peak and CMR phenomenon are interpreted in terms of coexistence of spin and lattice small polarons in the intermediate region ( T P< T<1.5 T P). The spin polaron energy in the La 0.46Eu 0.21Ca 0.33MnO 3 system is estimated to be 106.73±0.90 meV and this energy decreases with the increase of external magnetic field. The MR ratio is maximal with a value of 99.99% around the transition temperature and this maximum persists till T→0 K, at the field of 8 T.
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