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Muon spin relaxation in mixed perovskite (LaAlO$$_3$$)$$_x$$(SrAl$$_{0.5}$$Ta$$_{0.5}$$O$$_3$$)$$_{1-x}$$ with $$xsimeq 0.3$$

Ito, Takashi   ; Higemoto, Wataru  ; Koda, Akihiro*; Nakamura, Jumpei*; Shimomura, Koichiro*

We report on muon spin relaxation ($$mu^+$$SR) measurements in a mixed perovskite compound, (LaAlO$$_3$$)$$_{x}$$(SrAl$$_{0.5}$$Ta$$_{0.5}$$O$$_3$$)$$_{1-x}$$ with $$xsimeq 0.3$$ (LSAT), which is widely used as a single-crystalline substrate for thin film deposition. In zero applied field (ZF), muon depolarization due to the distribution of nuclear dipole fields was observed in the temperature range from 4 K to 270 K. Interestingly, $$mu^+$$SR time spectra in ZF maintained a Gaussian-like feature over the entire range, while the depolarization rate exhibited a monotonic decrease with increasing temperature. This behavior may be attributed to the thermally activated diffusion of muons between a few adjacent sites within a confined space of the angstrom scale, where the motionally averaged local field that each muon experiences can remain non-zero and result in maintaining the Gaussian-like line shape. The spatial distribution of electrostatic potential at lattice interstices evaluated via density functional theory calculations suggests that such a restriction of muon diffusion paths can be caused by the random distribution of cations with different nominal valences in the mixed perovskite lattice.

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