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Polarons and confinement of electronic motion to two dimensions in a layered manganite

Ronnow, H. M.  
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Renner, C.
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Aeppli, G.
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2006
Nature

A remarkable feature of layered transition-metal oxides-most famously, the high-temperature superconductors-is that they can display hugely anisotropic electrical and optical properties (for example, seeming to be insulating perpendicular to the layers and metallic within them), even when prepared as bulk three-dimensional single crystals. This is the phenomenon of 'confinement', a concept at odds with the conventional theory of solids, and recognized(1) as due to magnetic and electron-lattice interactions within the layers that must be overcome at a substantial energy cost if electrons are to be transferred between layers. The associated energy gap, or 'pseudogap', is particularly obvious in experiments where charge is moved perpendicular to the planes, most notably scanning tunnelling microscopy(2) and polarized infrared spectroscopy(3). Here, using the same experimental tools, we show that there is a second family of transition-metal oxides-the layered manganites La2-2xSr1+2xMn2O7-with even more extreme confinement and pseudogap effects. The data demonstrate quantitatively that because the charge carriers are attached to polarons (lattice- and spin-textures within the planes), it is as difficult to remove them from the planes through vacuum-tunnelling into a conventional metallic tip, as it is for them to move between Mn-rich layers within the material itself.

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DOI
10.1038/nature04650
Author(s)
Ronnow, H. M.  
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Renner, C.
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Aeppli, G.
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Kimura, T.
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Tokura, Y.
Date Issued

2006

Published in
Nature
Volume

440

Issue

7087

Start page

1025

End page

1028

Subjects

GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE

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QUASI-PARTICLE

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CHARGE

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SURFACE

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BI2SR2CACU2O8+DELTA

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INTERFERENCE

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TRANSITION

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PEROVSKITE

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PSEUDOGAP

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OXIDES

Note

Univ Coll London, London Ctr Nanotechnol, London WC1E 6BT, England. ETH, Neutron Scattering Lab, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland. Paul Scherrer Inst, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland. Univ Coll London, Dept Phys & Astron, London WC1E 6BT, England. Lucent Technol, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA. Univ Tokyo, Dept Appl Phys, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1138656, Japan. Japan Sci & Technol Agcy, ERATO, Spin Superstruct Project, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050046, Japan. Renner, C, Univ Coll London, London Ctr Nanotechnol, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT, England. c.renner@ucl.ac.uk

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