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Nestor Emilio Massa
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2003
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Physics
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We combine infrared reflectivity and EXAFS (Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure) techniques to study the solid solution La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 prepared by different methods yielding samples with different insulator-metal transition temperatures (TIM). While the small polaron analysis of the optical conductivity provides a natural description for the higher frequency reflectivity tail of conducting samples, our structural results are in accord with two non-equivalent sites in the insulating phase of good-quality samples. Those sites, one for the Mn3+ Jahn-Teller distorted octahedra and another for the Mn4+ ion, gradually turn into one dynamically averaged below the transition TIM. On the other hand, carriers screening antiresonances near infrared longitudinal optical modes, above TIM, mirror thermal activated small polarons weakly smearing EXAFS oscillations. We associate this to the lack of M3+,M4+ explicit structure in the Mn K-edge absorption band. Extra octahedra, detected by EXAFS below TIM in higher resistivity samples, seem to be excluded of participating in the dynamics of the insulator-metal transition shifting TIM toward lower temperatures.
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