Abstract
The manganite $(\text{La},\text{Pr},\text{Ca}){\text{MnO}}_{3}$ is well known for its micrometer-scale phase separation into coexisting ferromagnetic metallic (FMM) and insulating regions. Fabrication of bridges with widths smaller than the phase-separation length scale has allowed us to probe the magnetic properties of individual phase-separated regions. At the onset of phase separation, a magnetic field induced insulator-to-metal transition among a discrete number of domains within the narrow bridges gives rise to abrupt, low-field colossal magnetoresistance steps at well-defined switching fields. At lower temperatures when the FMM phase becomes energetically favorable, the insulating regions shrink to form thin insulating strips separating adjacent FMM regions with different coercive fields. Tunneling magnetoresistance is observed across the naturally occurring intrinsic insulating strips (tunnel barriers) spanning the width of the bridges. The presence of such intrinsic tunnel barriers introduces an alternative approach to fabricating novel nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions.
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