The magnetocaloric effect in single crystalline Nd_{0.7}Sr_{0.3}MnO_{3} is investigated by measuring the field-induced adiabatic change in temperature which reveals a single negative peak around 130 K well below the Curie temperature (T_C=203 K). In order to understand this unusual magnetocaloric effect, we invoke the reported {55}^Mn spin-echo nuclear magnetic resonance, electron magnetic resonance and polarized Raman scattering measurements on Nd_{0.7}Sr_{0.3}MnO_{3}. We show that this effect is a manifestation of a competition between the double exchange mechanism and correlations arising from coupled spin and lattice degrees of freedom which results in a complex ferromagnetic state. The critical behavior of Nd_{0.7}Sr_{0.3}MnO_{3} near Curie temperature is investigated to study the influence of the coupled degrees of freedom. We find a complicated behavior at low fields in which the order of the transition could not be fixed and a second-order-like behavior at high fields.
@article{arxiv.0706.1610,
title = {Complex ferromagnetic state and magnetocaloric effect in single crystalline Nd_{0.7}Sr_{0.3}MnO_{3}},
author = {R. Venkatesh and M. Pattabiraman and S. Angappane and G. Rangarajan and K. Sethupathi and Jessy Karatha and M. Fecioru-Morariu and R. M. Ghadimi and G. Guntherodt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.1610},
year = {2009}
}