title: Reentrant spin glass behavior in Cr-doped perovskite manganite.
abstract: The magnetic and transport properties of the Cr-doped manganites La(0.46)Sr(0.54)Mn(1-y)Cr(y)O3 ( 0 < or = y < or = 0.08) with the A-type antiferromagnetic structure were investigated. Upon cooling, we find multiple magnetic phase transitions, i.e., paramagnetic, ferromagnetic (FM), antiferromagnetic (AFM), and spin glass in the y = 0.02 sample. The low temperature spin glass state is not a conventional spin glass with randomly oriented magnetic moments but has a reentrant character. The reentrant spin glass behavior accompanied by the anomalous multiple magnetic transitions might be due to the competing interactions between the FM phase and the A-type AFM matrix induced by the random Cr impurity.
authors.affiliation: Center for CMR materials, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Yusong P.O. Box 102, Taejon, 305-600 Korea.
authors.forename: Joonghoe
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dho
authors.forename: W S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: N H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Hur