1301.0678 (Jeehoon Kim et al.)

Ferromagnetic bubble clusters in Y$_{0.67}$Ca$_{0.33}$MnO$_3$ thin films    [PDF]

Jeehoon Kim, N. Haberkorn, L. Civale, P. C. Dowden, R. Movshovich

We studied the ferromagnetic topology in a Y$_{0.67}$Ca$_{0.33}$MnO$_3$ thin film with a combination of magnetic force microscopy and magnetization measurements. Our results show that the spin-glass like behavior, reported previously for this system, could be attributed to frustrated interfaces of the ferromagnetic clusters embedded in a non-ferromagnetic matrix. We found temperature dependent changes of the magnetic topology at low temperatures, which suggests a non-static Mn$^{3+}$/Mn$^{4+}$ ratio.

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