Electronic structure of RE1 - xAxMnO3 manganite films investigated by magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy

Samoshkina, Yulia; Petrov, Dmitriy; Telegin, Andrei; Sukhorukov, Yurii; Kaul, Andrei; Korsakov, Igor// arXiv.org, e-Print Archive, Condensed Matter//

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.13510

Magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectroscopy was used to study the features of the electronic structure of an epitaxial La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 film in the range of 1.2 - 4 eV. The study of the temperature behavior of the MCD spectra made it possible to establish a correlation between the magnetooptical and transport properties of the sample. The data obtained were analyzed in comparison with MCD data for polycrystalline manganite films of various RE1-xAxMnO3 compositions. The MCD spectra of the films were compared with the spectra of the off-diagonal component of the permittivity tensor calculated from the data of the magneto-optical Kerr effect for films of the same composition. A unified set of ground and excited electronic states characteristic of RE1-xAxMnO3 manganites in the visible and near infrared ranges has been identified. These results are important for a qualitative theoretical description of the electronic structure of strongly correlated magnetic oxides.