Abstract
Spin, charge, and orbital structures in models for doped manganites are studied by a combination of analytic mean-field and numerical relaxation techniques. At realistic values for the electron-phonon and antiferromagnetic spin couplings, a competition between a ferromagnetic (FM) phase and a charge-orbital ordered (COO) insulating state is found for 3/8, and 1/2, as experimentally observed in for The theoretical predictions for the spin-charge-orbital ordering pattern are compared with experiments. The FM-COO energy difference is surprisingly small for the densities studied, and the results compatible with the presence of a robust colossal-magnetoresistive effect in in a large density interval.
- Received 28 December 1999
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.61.R11879
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