Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 267401 (2011) [4 pages]
A. K. Sarychev1, S. O. Boyarintsev1, A. L. Rakhmanov1, K. I. Kugel1, and Yu. P. Sukhorukov2
1Institute for Theoretical and Applied Electrodynamics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Izhorskaya Street 13, Moscow, 125412 Russia 2Institute of Metal Physics, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Sophia Kovalevskaya Street 18, Ekaterinburg, 620990 Russia
Received 14 April 2011; published 19 December 2011
Optical characteristics of manganites with nanoscale electronic phase separation are simulated using an exact renormalization group transformation in Kirchhoff’s equations. The local electric field is found to be highly inhomogeneous, exceeding the incident-wave field by orders of magnitude when the permittivities of the phases have opposite signs and plasmons are excited. The spatial scale of the field fluctuations suggests the collective character of the plasmon modes. The results of the simulation explain the optical anomalies of La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 single crystals and films in the infrared frequency range in a natural way.
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