Magnetization reversal and nanoscopic magnetic-phase separation in La 1−xSr xCoO 3 Joseph E. Davies,1 J. Wu,2 C. Leighton,2,* and Kai Liu1,† 1Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA 2Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA Received 28 June 2005; published 20 October 2005