BARC/PUB/2023/0652

 
 

Emerging interfacial magnetization in isovalent manganite heterostructures driven by octahedral coupling

 
     
 
Author(s)

Yogesh Kumar; Bhatt, H.; Kakkar, S.; and others
(SSPD)

Source

Physical Review-B, 2023. Vol. 108: Article no. 174410

ABSTRACT

The distortion of corner-sharing octahedra in isovalent perovskite transition-metal oxide interfaces have proven to be an excellent way to tailor the electronic and magnetic properties of their heterostructures. Combining depth-dependent magnetic characterization using polarized neutron reflectivity (PNR) and theoretical calculations (density functional theory), we report interface-driven magnetic exchange interactions due to modification in the octahedral rotations at the interfaces of the isovalent La0.67Ca0.33MnO3/La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 heterostructures. PNR results determined a length scale of ~8 unit cells at the interface, which demonstrated a modification in magnetic properties. The results also predicted a low-temperature exchange bias for these ferromagnetic heterostructures with a maximum exchange bias for the heterostructure, which showed an enhanced antiferromagnetic coupling at the interfaces.

 
 
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