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Kee Hoon Kim(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), M. Uehara(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), C. Heß(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), Priyamedha Sharma(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), S-W. Cheong(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
Physical Review Letters
March 27, 2000
10.1103/physrevlett.84.2961
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Abstract

We measured thermal conductivity $\ensuremath{\kappa}$, thermoelectric power $S$, and electric conductivity $\ensuremath{\sigma}$ of ${\mathrm{La}}_{5/8\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{Pr}}_{x}{\mathrm{Ca}}_{3/8}{\mathrm{MnO}}_{3}$, showing an intricate interplay between metallic ferromagnetism (FM) and charge ordering (CO) instability. The change of $\ensuremath{\kappa}$, $S$, and $\ensuremath{\sigma}$ with temperature $(T)$ and $x$ agrees well with the effective medium theories for binary metal-insulator mixtures. This agreement clearly demonstrates that with the variation of $T$ as well as $x$, the relative volumes of FM and CO phases drastically change and percolative metal-insulator transition occurs in the mixture of FM and CO domains.

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