title: Percolative conduction in the half-metallic-ferromagnetic and ferroelectric mixture of (La, Lu, Sr)MnO3.
abstract: The immiscibility between rhombohedral La(5/8)Sr(3/8)MnO3 and hexagonal LuMnO3 leads to a microm-scale heterogeneous mixture of half-metallic-ferromagnetic and insulating-ferroelectric phases. Electronic conduction of the mixture exhibits nearly ideal percolation behavior in the paramagnetic state with a threshold of 0.224(5) metal volume fraction and a resistivity scaling exponent t=2.1+/-0.1, consistent with the predicted universal behavior of classical percolation. However, far below T(C), t increases to 2.4+/-0.1, probably resulting from intergrain tunneling. Therefore, this system represents a unique example of the temperature-induced crossover from universal to nonuniversal behavior of t.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hur
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Guha
authors.forename: S-W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Cheong