Abstract
We report on the quasi-particle dynamics of the charge/orbital ordered (COO) and ferromagnetic clusters in the optimally doped manganite, La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 (LCMO) single crystal by time-resolved two-color pump–probe spectroscopy. Pump photons with energies of ∼1.55 and ∼0.21 eV were employed in our transient optical spectroscopy to investigate the percolative phase separation including the COO and ferromagnetic clusters from 4 to 480 K. At 1.55 eV, the transient reflectivity change, ΔR/R, at Δt=0 shows a similar temperature dependence as that in resistivity and in neutron scattering intensity. We attribute the reflectivity signal to the characteristic optical response of the COO domains. We identify a new temperature scale T*∼400 K for the clean limit to the formation of COO clusters in LCMO. In contrast, the temperature-dependent amplitude of the transient reflectivity change in the mid-infrared (IR) absorption band (∼5 μm) scales with the volume fraction of the ferromagnetic metallic (FM) phases. Our results suggest ultrafast optical spectroscopy to be a powerful probe to reveal the correlated polarons and charge disorders in phase-separated manganites.
Highlights
Determining the complex interactions between charge/orbital ordered (COO) phases and their dynamical processes in such a strongly correlated system from frequency-domain spectroscopy means extracting excitation information by deconvolution of all the different spectral components
Time-domain spectroscopy can distinguish between different excitations by their different relaxation dynamics, potentially giving new and complementary information on the underlaying mechanisms governing the colossal responses of the material
A two-color pump–probe setup was employed with the pump beam power 6 mW and the probe beam power 1 mW
Summary
Determining the complex interactions between COO phases and their dynamical processes in such a strongly correlated system from frequency-domain spectroscopy means extracting excitation information by deconvolution of all the different spectral components. We used two-color pump–probe spectroscopy in this work to investigate the quasi-particle dynamics of the COO and ferromagnetic clusters in the optimally doped manganite, LCMO single crystal.
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