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Wang H, Dai Y, Liu Z, Xie Q, Liu C, Lin W, Liu L, Yang P, Wang J, Venkatesan TV, Chow GM, Tian H, Zhang Z, Chen J. Overcoming the Limits of the Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction by Antiferromagnetic Order in Multiferroic Heterostructures. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2020; 32:e1904415. [PMID: 32090416 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201904415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2019] [Revised: 01/21/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Topologically protected magnetic states have a variety of potential applications in future spintronics owing to their nanoscale size (<100 nm) and unique dynamics. These fascinating states, however, usually are located at the interfaces or surfaces of ultrathin systems due to the short interaction range of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Here, magnetic topological states in a 40-unit cells (16 nm) SrRuO3 layer are successfully created via an interlayer exchange coupling mechanism and the interfacial DMI. By controlling the thickness of an antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic layer, interfacial ionic polarization, as well as the transformation between ferromagnetic and magnetic topological states, can be modulated. Using micromagnetic simulations, the formation and stability of robust magnetic skyrmions in SrRuO3 /BiFeO3 heterostructures are elucidated. Magnetic skyrmions in thick multiferroic heterostructures are promising for the development of topological electronics as well as rendering a practical approach to extend the interfacial topological phenomena to bulk via antiferromagnetic order.
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- Han Wang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117575, Singapore
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- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China
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- Center of Electron Microscope, State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117575, Singapore
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117575, Singapore
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117575, Singapore
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117575, Singapore
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- Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS), National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117603, Singapore
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117575, Singapore
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117575, Singapore
- NUSNNI-Nanocore, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117411, Singapore
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117575, Singapore
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- Center of Electron Microscope, State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117575, Singapore
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Carpenter MA, Evans DM, Schiemer JA, Wolf T, Adelmann P, Böhmer AE, Meingast C, Dutton SE, Mukherjee P, Howard CJ. Ferroelasticity, anelasticity and magnetoelastic relaxation in Co-doped iron pnictide: Ba(Fe 0.957Co 0.043) 2As 2. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2019; 31:155401. [PMID: 30641499 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aafe29] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The hypothesis that strain has a permeating influence on ferroelastic, magnetic and superconducting transitions in 122 iron pnictides has been tested by investigating variations of the elastic and anelastic properties of a single crystal of Ba(Fe0.957Co0.043)2As2 by resonant ultrasound spectroscopy as a function of temperature and externally applied magnetic field. Non-linear softening and stiffening of C 66 in the stability fields of both the tetragonal and orthorhombic structures has been found to conform quantitatively to the Landau expansion for a pseudoproper ferroelastic transition which is second order in character. The only exception is that the transition occurs at a temperature (T S ≈ 69 K) ~10 K above the temperature at which C 66 would extrapolate to zero ([Formula: see text] ≈ 59 K). An absence of anomalies associated with antiferromagnetic ordering below T N ≈ 60 K implies that coupling of the magnetic order parameter with shear strain is weak. It is concluded that linear-quadratic coupling between the structural/electronic and antiferromagnetic order parameters is suppressed due to the effects of local heterogeneous strain fields arising from the substitution of Fe by Co. An acoustic loss peak at ~50-55 K is attributed to the influence of mobile ferroelastic twin walls that become pinned by a thermally activated process involving polaronic defects. Softening of C 66 by up to ~6% below the normal-superconducting transition at T c ≈ 13 K demonstrates an effective coupling of the shear strain with the order parameter for the superconducting transition which arises indirectly as a consequence of unfavourable coupling of the superconducting order parameter with the ferroelastic order parameter. Ba(Fe0.957Co0.043)2As2 is representative of 122 pnictides as forming a class of multiferroic superconductors in which elastic strain relaxations underpin almost all aspects of coupling between the structural, magnetic and superconducting order parameters and of dynamic properties of the transformation microstructures they contain.
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- M A Carpenter
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, United Kingdom
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Sonobe T, Shimojima T, Nakamura A, Nakajima M, Uchida S, Kihou K, Lee CH, Iyo A, Eisaki H, Ohgushi K, Ishizaka K. Orbital-anisotropic electronic structure in the nonmagnetic state of BaFe 2(As 1-xP x ) 2 superconductors. Sci Rep 2018; 8:2169. [PMID: 29391431 PMCID: PMC5794914 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-20332-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2017] [Accepted: 01/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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High-temperature superconductivity in iron-pnictides/chalcogenides arises in balance with several electronic and lattice instabilities. Beside the antiferromagnetic order, the orbital anisotropy between Fe 3d xz and 3d yz occurs near the orthorhombic structural transition in several parent compounds. However, the extent of the survival of orbital anisotropy against the ion-substitution remains to be established. Here we report the composition (x) and temperature (T) dependences of the orbital anisotropy in the electronic structure of a BaFe2(As1-xP x )2 system by using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. In the low-x regime, the orbital anisotropy starts to evolve on cooling from high temperatures above both antiferromagnetic and orthorhombic transitions. By increasing x, it is gradually suppressed and survives in the optimally doped regime. We find that the in-plane orbital anisotropy persists in a large area of the nonmagnetic phase, including the superconducting dome. These results suggest that the rotational symmetry-broken electronic state acts as the stage for superconductivity in BaFe2(As1-xP x )2.
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- T Sonobe
- Quantum-Phase Electronics Center (QPEC) and Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan
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- Quantum-Phase Electronics Center (QPEC) and Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan.
- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Wako, 351-0198, Japan.
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- Quantum-Phase Electronics Center (QPEC) and Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan
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- Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, 305-8568, Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, 305-8568, Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, 305-8568, Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, 305-8568, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8578, Japan
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- Quantum-Phase Electronics Center (QPEC) and Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan
- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Wako, 351-0198, Japan
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Shimojima T, Malaeb W, Nakamura A, Kondo T, Kihou K, Lee CH, Iyo A, Eisaki H, Ishida S, Nakajima M, Uchida SI, Ohgushi K, Ishizaka K, Shin S. Antiferroic electronic structure in the nonmagnetic superconducting state of the iron-based superconductors. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2017; 3:e1700466. [PMID: 28875162 PMCID: PMC5573309 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1700466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2017] [Accepted: 08/01/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A major problem in the field of high-transition temperature (Tc) superconductivity is the identification of the electronic instabilities near superconductivity. It is known that the iron-based superconductors exhibit antiferromagnetic order, which competes with the superconductivity. However, in the nonmagnetic state, there are many aspects of the electronic instabilities that remain unclarified, as represented by the orbital instability and several in-plane anisotropic physical properties. We report a new aspect of the electronic state of the optimally doped iron-based superconductors by using high-energy resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We find spectral evidence for the folded electronic structure suggestive of an antiferroic electronic instability, coexisting with the superconductivity in the nonmagnetic state of Ba1-x K x Fe2As2. We further establish a phase diagram showing that the antiferroic electronic structure persists in a large portion of the nonmagnetic phase covering the superconducting dome. These results motivate consideration of a key unknown electronic instability, which is necessary for the achievement of high-Tc superconductivity in the iron-based superconductors.
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- Takahiro Shimojima
- Quantum-Phase Electronics Center and Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
- Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
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- Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Beirut Arab University, Beirut 11-5020, Lebanon
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- Quantum-Phase Electronics Center and Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3, Aramaki Aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
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- Quantum-Phase Electronics Center and Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
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Majumder M, Ghoshray A, Khuntia P, Mazumdar C, Poddar A, Baenitz M, Ghoshray K. Absence of low energy magnetic spin-fluctuations in isovalently and aliovalently doped LaCo2B2 superconducting compounds. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2016; 28:345701. [PMID: 27355521 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/34/345701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Magnetization, resistivity and (11)B, (59)Co NMR measurements have been performed on the Pauli paramagnet [Formula: see text], and the superconductors [Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text] K) and [Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text] K). The site selective NMR experiment reveals the multiband nature of the Fermi surface in these systems. The temperature independent Knight shift and 1/T 1 T clearly indicate the absence of correlated low energy magnetic spin-fluctuations in the normal state, which is in contrast to other Fe-based pnictides. The density of states (DOS) of Co 3d electrons has been enhanced in superconducting [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] with respect to the non superconducting reference compound [Formula: see text]. The occurrence of superconductivity is related to the DOS enhancement.
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- M Majumder
- ECMP Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata-700064, India. Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187 Dresden, Germany
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Hacisalihoglu MY, Paris E, Joseph B, Simonelli L, Sato TJ, Mizokawa T, Saini NL. A study of temperature dependent local atomic displacements in a Ba(Fe(1-x)Co(x))2As2 superconductor. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:9029-35. [PMID: 26966734 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp07985c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We have studied the local structure of a Ba(Fe(1-x)Co(x))2As2 superconductor using temperature dependent extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) measurements. Polarized EXAFS at the Fe K-edge on an optimally doped (x = 0.06) single crystal has permitted us to determine atomic displacements across the superconducting transition temperature (T(c)). The Fe-As bondlength hardly shows any change with temperature; however, the Fe-Fe sublattice reveals a sharp anomaly across T(c), indicated by a significant drop in mean square relative displacements, similar to the one known for cuprates and A15-type superconductors. We have also found a large atomic disorder around the substituted Co, revealed by polarized Co K-edge EXAFS measurements. The Co-Fe/Co bonds are more flexible than the Fe-Fe bonds with the As-height in Co-containing tetrahedra being larger than the one in FeAs4. The results suggest that the local Fe-Fe bondlength fluctuations and the atomic disorder in this sub-lattice should have some important role in the superconductivity of Ba(Fe(1-x)Co(x))2As2 pnictides.
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- M Y Hacisalihoglu
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza", P. le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy. and Department of Physics, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, 53100 Rize, Turkey and Department of Physics, Karadeniz Technical University, 61080 Trabzon, Turkey
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza", P. le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy. and Center for Life NanoScience@Sapienza, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, V. le Regina Elena 291, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza", P. le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy. and Elettra, Sincrotrone Trieste, Strada Statale 14, Km 163.5, Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- ALBA Synchrotron Light Facility, Crta. BP 1413, Km. 3.3, 08290 Cerdanyola del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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- Department of Applied Physics, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza", P. le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy.
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Middey S, Meyers D, Doennig D, Kareev M, Liu X, Cao Y, Yang Z, Shi J, Gu L, Ryan PJ, Pentcheva R, Freeland JW, Chakhalian J. Mott Electrons in an Artificial Graphenelike Crystal of Rare-Earth Nickelate. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2016; 116:056801. [PMID: 26894726 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.056801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Deterministic control over the periodic geometrical arrangement of the constituent atoms is the backbone of the material properties, which, along with the interactions, define the electronic and magnetic ground state. Following this notion, a bilayer of a prototypical rare-earth nickelate, NdNiO_{3}, combined with a dielectric spacer, LaAlO_{3}, has been layered along the pseudocubic [111] direction. The resulting artificial graphenelike Mott crystal with magnetic 3d electrons has antiferromagnetic correlations. In addition, a combination of resonant X-ray linear dichroism measurements and ab initio calculations reveal the presence of an ordered orbital pattern, which is unattainable in either bulk nickelates or nickelate based heterostructures grown along the [001] direction. These findings highlight another promising venue towards designing new quantum many-body states by virtue of geometrical engineering.
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- S Middey
- Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Center of Nanoscience, University of Munich, Munich D-80333, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed-Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed-Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed-Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Center of Nanoscience, University of Munich, Munich D-80333, Germany
- Department of Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg D-47057, Germany
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
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Charnukha A, Post KW, Thirupathaiah S, Pröpper D, Wurmehl S, Roslova M, Morozov I, Büchner B, Yaresko AN, Boris AV, Borisenko SV, Basov DN. Weak-coupling superconductivity in a strongly correlated iron pnictide. Sci Rep 2016; 6:18620. [PMID: 26729630 PMCID: PMC4700462 DOI: 10.1038/srep18620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2015] [Accepted: 11/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Iron-based superconductors have been found to exhibit an intimate interplay of orbital, spin, and lattice degrees of freedom, dramatically affecting their low-energy electronic properties, including superconductivity. Albeit the precise pairing mechanism remains unidentified, several candidate interactions have been suggested to mediate the superconducting pairing, both in the orbital and in the spin channel. Here, we employ optical spectroscopy (OS), angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), ab initio band-structure, and Eliashberg calculations to show that nearly optimally doped NaFe0.978Co0.022As exhibits some of the strongest orbitally selective electronic correlations in the family of iron pnictides. Unexpectedly, we find that the mass enhancement of itinerant charge carriers in the strongly correlated band is dramatically reduced near the Γ point and attribute this effect to orbital mixing induced by pronounced spin-orbit coupling. Embracing the true band structure allows us to describe all low-energy electronic properties obtained in our experiments with remarkable consistency and demonstrate that superconductivity in this material is rather weak and mediated by spin fluctuations.
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- A. Charnukha
- Physics Department, University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
- Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, IFW, 01069 Dresden, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Physics Department, University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, IFW, 01069 Dresden, Germany
- Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore–560 012, India
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- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, IFW, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, IFW, 01069 Dresden, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, IFW, 01069 Dresden, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, IFW, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, IFW, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Physics Department, University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Zhang Q, Fernandes RM, Lamsal J, Yan J, Chi S, Tucker GS, Pratt DK, Lynn JW, McCallum RW, Canfield PC, Lograsso TA, Goldman AI, Vaknin D, McQueeney RJ. Neutron-scattering measurements of spin excitations in LaFeAsO and Ba(Fe(0.953)Co(0.047))(2)As(2): evidence for a sharp enhancement of spin fluctuations by nematic order. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2015; 114:057001. [PMID: 25699463 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.114.057001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Inelastic neutron scattering is employed to investigate the impact of electronic nematic order on the magnetic spectra of LaFeAsO and Ba(Fe(0.953)Co(0.047))(2)As(2). These materials are ideal to study the paramagnetic-nematic state, since the nematic order, signaled by the tetragonal-to-orthorhombic transition at T(S), sets in well above the stripe antiferromagnetic ordering at T(N). We find that the temperature-dependent dynamic susceptibility displays an anomaly at T(S) followed by a sharp enhancement in the spin-spin correlation length, revealing a strong feedback effect of nematic order on the low-energy magnetic spectrum. Our findings can be consistently described by a model that attributes the structural or nematic transition to magnetic fluctuations, and unveils the key role played by nematic order in promoting the long-range stripe antiferromagnetic order in iron pnictides.
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- Qiang Zhang
- Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-6102, USA
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-6102, USA
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- Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA and Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA and Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Kontani H, Yamakawa Y. Linear response theory for shear modulus C66 and Raman quadrupole susceptibility: evidence for nematic orbital fluctuations in Fe-based superconductors. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2014; 113:047001. [PMID: 25105647 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.047001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The emergence of the nematic order and fluctuations has been discussed as a central issue in Fe-based superconductors. To clarify the origin of the nematicity, we focus on the shear modulus C(66) and the Raman quadrupole susceptibility χ(x)(2)-y(2))(Raman). Because of the Aslamazov-Larkin vertex correction, the nematic-type orbital fluctuations are induced, and they enhance both 1/C(66) and χ(x(2)-y(2))(Raman) strongly. However, χ(x)(2)-y(2))(Raman) remains finite even at the structure transition temperature T(S), because of the absence of the band Jahn-Teller effect and the Pauli (intraband) contribution, as proved in terms of the linear response theory. The present study clarifies that the origin of the nematicity in Fe-based superconductors is the nematic orbital order and fluctuations.
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- Hiroshi Kontani
- Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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Charnukha A. Optical conductivity of iron-based superconductors. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2014; 26:253203. [PMID: 24899620 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/25/253203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The new family of unconventional iron-based superconductors discovered in 2006 immediately relieved their copper-based high-temperature predecessors as the most actively studied superconducting compounds in the world. The experimental and theoretical effort made in order to unravel the mechanism of superconductivity in these materials has been overwhelming. Although our understanding of their microscopic properties has been improving steadily, the pairing mechanism giving rise to superconducting transition temperatures up to 55 K remains elusive. And yet the hope is strong that these materials, which possess a drastically different electronic structure but similarly high transition temperatures compared to the copper-based compounds, will shed essential new light onto the several-decade-old problem of unconventional superconductivity. In this work we review the current understanding of the itinerant-charge-carrier dynamics in the iron-based superconductors and parent compounds largely based on the optical conductivity data the community has gleaned over the past seven years using such experimental techniques as reflectivity, ellipsometry, and terahertz transmission measurements and analyze the implications of these studies for the microscopic properties of the iron-based materials as well as the mechanism of superconductivity therein.
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Zhao J, Shen Y, Birgeneau RJ, Gao M, Lu ZY, Lee DH, Lu XZ, Xiang HJ, Abernathy DL, Zhao Y. Neutron scattering measurements of spatially anisotropic magnetic exchange interactions in semiconducting K0.85 Fe1.54Se2 (TN = 280 K. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2014; 112:177002. [PMID: 24836268 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.177002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We use neutron scattering to study the spin excitations associated with the stripe antiferromagnetic order in semiconducting K(0.85)Fe(1.54)Se(2) (T(N) = 280 K). We show that the spin-wave spectra can be accurately described by an effective Heisenberg Hamiltonian with highly anisotropic inplane couplings at T = 5 K. At high temperature (T = 300 K) above T(N), short-range magnetic correlation with anisotropic correlation lengths are observed. Our results suggest that, despite the dramatic difference in the Fermi surface topology, the inplane anisotropic magnetic couplings are a fundamental property of the iron-based compounds; this implies that their antiferromagnetism may originate from local strong correlation effects rather than weak coupling Fermi surface nesting.
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- Jun Zhao
- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
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- Department of Physics, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Neutron Scattering Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6393, USA
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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Ma C, Wu L, Yin WG, Yang H, Shi H, Wang Z, Li J, Homes CC, Zhu Y. Strong coupling of the iron-quadrupole and anion-dipole polarizations in Ba(Fe(1-x)Co(x))2As2. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2014; 112:077001. [PMID: 24579626 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.077001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We use a quantitative convergent beam electron diffraction based method to image the valence electron density distribution in Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2. We show a remarkable increase in both the charge quadrupole of the Fe cations and the charge dipole of the arsenic anions upon Co doping from x=0 (Tc=0 K) to x=0.1 (Tc=22.5 K). Our data suggest that an unexpected electronic correlation effect, namely strong coupling of Fe orbital fluctuation and anion electronic polarization, is present in iron-based superconductors.
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- Chao Ma
- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA and Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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