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Spin Dynamics of Double-Exchange Manganites with Magnetic Frustration 4 R.S. Fishman 0 0 Condensed Matter Sciences Division, 2 b Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6032 e F Abstract 2 1 This work examines the effects of magnetic frustration due to competing ferromagnetic and ] antiferromagnetic Heisenberg interactions on the spin dynamics of the double-exchange model. l e - r When the local moments are non-colinear, a charge-density wave forms because the electrons prefer t s t. to sit on lines of sites that are coupled ferromagnetically. With increasing hopping energy, the local a m spins become aligned and the average spin-wave stiffness increases. Phase separation is found only - d within a narrow range of hopping energies. Results of this work are applied to the field-induced n o jump in the spin-wave stiffness observed in the manganite Pr Ca MnO with 0.3 ≤ x ≤ 0.4. 1−x x 3 c [ 1 v 4 4 3 2 0 4 0 / t a m - d n o c : v i X r a 1 The persistence of antiferromagnetic (AFM) short-range order below the Curie temper- arture T of the manganites has been known for many years [1]. Close to but below T , C C metallic manganites like La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 contain polaronic regions [2, 3] that are responsi- ble for the coexistence of propagating and diffusive spin dynamics [4]. In the remarkable compound