The distortion of corner-sharing octahedra in isovalent perovskite transition-metal oxide interfaces is proven to be an excellent way to tailor the electronic and magnetic properties of their heterostructures. Combining depth-dependent magnetic characterization technique; (polarized neutron reflectivity, PNR); and theoretical calculation (density functional theory), we report interface-driven magnetic exchange interactions due to a modification in the octahedral rotations at the interfaces in an isovalent La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 (LCMO)/La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 (LSMO) 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.
@article{arxiv.2310.09059,
title = {Emerging interfacial magnetization in isovalent manganite heterostructures driven by octahedral coupling},
author = {Yogesh Kumar and Harsh Bhatt and S. Kakkar and C. J. Kinane and A. Caruana and S. Langridge and Chandan Bera and S. Basu and Manuel A. Roldan and Surendra Singh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.09059},
year = {2023}
}