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Tuning phase diagrams

Strain engineering can tune a manganite film into an antiferromagnetic insulating state whose extreme photo-susceptibility allows for the ordinary ferromagnetic metal state to then be transiently realized.

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Figure 1: A schematic diagram of the equilibrium and strained phase diagrams of La1−xCaxMnO3.

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Mihailovic, D. Tuning phase diagrams. Nature Mater 15, 930–931 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4744

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