Discontinuous transitions in double exchange materials
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2009-10-31 v3 Materials Science
Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
It is shown that the double exchange Hamiltonian, with weak antiferromagnetic interactions, has a rich variety of first order transitions between phases with different electronic densities and/or magnetizations. For band fillings in the range , and at finite temperatures, a discontinuous transition between phases with similar electronic densities but different magnetizations takes place. This sharp transition, which is not suppressed by electrostatic effects, and survives in the presence of an applied field, is consistent with the phenomenology of the doped manganites near the transition temperature.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0003472,
title = {Discontinuous transitions in double exchange materials},
author = {J. L. Alonso and L. A. Fernandez and F. Guinea and V. Laliena and V. Martin-Mayor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0003472},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
three more variational ansatzs considered