title: Time-resolved electronic phase transitions in manganites.
abstract: The dynamics of first-order electronic phase transitions in complex transition metal oxides are not well understood but are crucial in understanding the emergent phenomena of electronic phase separation. We show that a manganite system reduced to the scale of its inherent electronic charge-ordered insulating and ferromagnetic metal phase domains allows for the direct observation of single electronic phase domain fluctuations within a critical regime of temperature and magnetic field at the metal-insulator transition.
authors.affiliation: Materials Sciences and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA.
authors.forename: T Z
authors.initials: TZ
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.forename: X G
authors.initials: XG
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: X Q
authors.initials: XQ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Snijders
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jesse
authors.forename: E W
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Plummer
authors.forename: Z H
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dagotto
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shen