Quantum decoherence in the spectral functions of undoped lamno3.
We study the one hole spectral function in a model for LaMnO3 including both the effects of orbital ordering and the quantum decoherence due to the antiferromagnetic coupling between the ferromagnetic layers. We find that the classical picture of a ferromagnetic polaron does not apply and free dispersion is replaced by rigid quasiparticles on the scale of magnetic excitations, while the spectra are dominated by the incoherent spectral weight at high energies. These results have important implications on the in-plane transport and angular resolved photoemission in the manganites.
Bala
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Laboratory of Applied and Solid State Physics, Materials Science Center, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, NL-9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.
Sawatzky
G A
GA
Oles
A M
AM
Macridin
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