Temperature dependence of ESR anisotropy in La7/8Sr1/8MnO3

We report X-ray diffraction, DC-susceptibility, electron spin resonance (ESR), and dilatometry measurements carried out on an La_7/8Sr_1/8MnO₃ single crystal. Thermal expansion was measured along different crystallographic axes using a three-terminal dilatometer. The sharp anomalies observed in the temperature dependence of Δl/l allowed us to locate the Jahn–Teller transition at T_JT=285(1) K. ESR experiments were carried out in the paramagnetic regime from 220 to 570 K, at 9.4 GHz. We measured the ESR line width ΔH_pp(T) with the magnetic field parallel to the crystallographic directions [1 0 0] and [0 0 1], referred to the orthorhombic (Pbnm) axes. We correlate the temperature dependence of ΔH_pp with the structural changes of the lattice.