Phase diagrams in the plane of rA (the average ionic radius, related to one-electron bandwidth W) and σ2 (the ionic radius variance, measuring the quenched disorder), or ``bandwidth-disorder phase diagrams'', have been established for perovskite manganites, with three-dimensional (3D) Mn-O network. Here we establish the intrinsic bandwidth-disorder phase diagram of half-doped layered manganites with the two-dimensional (2D) Mn-O network, examining in detail the ``mother state'' of the colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) phenomenon in crystals without ferromagnetic instability. The consequences of the reduced dimensionality, from 3D to 2D, on the order-disorder phenomena in the charge-orbital sectors are also highlighted.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0607115,
title = {Bandwidth-disorder phase diagram of half doped layered manganites},
author = {R. Mathieu and M. Uchida and Y. Kaneko and J. P. He and X. Z. Yu and R. Kumai and T. Arima and Y. Tomioka and A. Asamitsu and Y. Matsui and Y. Tokura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0607115},
year = {2007}
}