Glassy State in PCMO Crystal (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Glassy State in PCMO Crystal

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Ultrafast pulses of x-rays from Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source revealed a glass-like re-ordering of electron-spin states in PCMO crystals as samples recovered from a photo-excited conductor state back to the insulator state. In this schematic, circles and lobes show manganese sites and orbitals with pink and blue colors representing opposite spin orientations.

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