Short-range spin and charge correlations and local density of states in the colossal magnetoresistance regime of the single-orbital model for manganites

Rong Yu,1,2 Shuai Dong,1,2,3 Cengiz Şen,4 Gonzalo Alvarez,5 and Elbio Dagotto1,2 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA 2Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 32831, USA 3Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People’s Republic of China 4Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA 5Computer Science and Mathematics Division and Center for Nanophase Materials Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA Received 22 February 2008; revised manuscript received 28 April 2008; published 25 June 2008