Stripes induced by orbital ordering in layered manganites.
Spin-charge-orbital ordered structures in doped layered manganites are investigated using an orbital-degenerate double-exchange model tightly coupled to Jahn-Teller distortions. In the ferromagnetic phase, unexpected diagonal stripes at x = 1/m ( m = integer) are observed, as in recent experiments. These stripes are induced by the orbital degree of freedom, which forms a staggered pattern in the background. A pi shift in the orbital order across stripes is identified, analogous to the pi shift in spin order across stripes in cuprates. At x = 1/4 and 1/3, another nonmagnetic phase with diagonal static charge stripes is stabilized at intermediate values of the t(2g)-spins exchange coupling.
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Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa-no-ha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan.
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