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Magnetic and neutron-diffraction studies of La 2 CoMnO 6 doped with strontium and calcium ions are carried out. Stoichiometric and calcium-containing samples are orthorhombically distorted, whereas the oxidation and doping with strontium ions stabilizes a rhombohedral structure. Neutron-diffraction studies show that La 2 CoMnO 6 is a ferromagnet, whereas a Ca-substituted compound does not exhibit long-range magnetic order. The whole set of data suggest that these compounds are inhomogeneous magnets that consist of clusters in which Co 2+ and Mn 4+ ions are ordered similar to ions in NaCl and of regions in which there is no such ordering. These regions exhibit different magnetic properties. Phase separation is discussed in a model of solid solutions with intrinsic chemical inhomogeneity on the nanometer scale.
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