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Magnetoelastic coupling and charge correlation lengths in a twin domain of Ba(FeCo)As (): A high-resolution X-ray diffraction study
The interplay between structure, magnetism and superconductivity in single
crystal Ba(FeCo)As (x=0.047) has been studied using
high-resolution X-ray diffraction by monitoring charge Bragg reflections in
each twin domain separately. The emergence of the superconducting state is
correlated with the suppression of the orthorhombic distortion around
\emph{T}, exhibiting competition between orthorhombicity and
superconductivity. Above \emph{T}, the in-plane charge correlation
length increases with the decrease of temperature, possibly induced by nematic
fluctuations in the paramagnetic tetragonal phase. Upon cooling, anomalies in
the in-plane charge correlation lengths along () and axes
() are observed at \emph{T} and also at
\emph{T} indicative of strong magnetoelastic coupling. The
in-plane charge correlation lengths are found to exhibit anisotropic behavior
along and perpendicular to the in-plane component of stripe-type AFM wave
vector (101) below around \emph{T}. The temperature
dependence of the out-of-plane charge correlation length shows a single anomaly
at \emph{T}, reflecting the connection between Fe-As distance and
Fe local moment. The origin of the anisotropic in-plane charge correlation
lengths and is discussed on the basis of the antiphase
magnetic domains and their dynamic fluctuations.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, 34 references, submitted for publication in
Physical Review
Asymptotic enumeration of correlation-immune boolean functions
A boolean function of boolean variables is {correlation-immune} of order
if the function value is uncorrelated with the values of any of the
arguments. Such functions are of considerable interest due to their
cryptographic properties, and are also related to the orthogonal arrays of
statistics and the balanced hypercube colourings of combinatorics. The {weight}
of a boolean function is the number of argument values that produce a function
value of 1. If this is exactly half the argument values, that is,
values, a correlation-immune function is called {resilient}.
An asymptotic estimate of the number of -variable
correlation-immune boolean functions of order was obtained in 1992 by
Denisov for constant . Denisov repudiated that estimate in 2000, but we will
show that the repudiation was a mistake.
The main contribution of this paper is an asymptotic estimate of
which holds if increases with within generous limits and specialises to
functions with a given weight, including the resilient functions. In the case
of , our estimates are valid for all weights.Comment: 18 page
Character of the structural and magnetic phase transitions in the parent and electron doped BaFe2As2 compounds
We present a combined high-resolution x-ray diffraction and x-ray resonant
magnetic scattering (XRMS) study of as-grown BaFe2As2. The structural/magnetic
transitions must be described as a two-step process. At T_S = 134.5 K we
observe the onset of a second-order structural transition from the
high-temperature paramagnetic tetragonal structure to a paramagnetic
orthorhombic phase, followed by a discontinuous step in the structural order
parameter that is coincident with a first-order antiferromagnetic (AFM)
transition at T_N = 133.75 K. These data, together with detailed
high-resolution x-ray studies of the structural transition in lightly doped
Ba(Fe{1-x}Co{x})2As2 and Ba(Fe{1-x}Rh{x})2As2 compounds, show that the
structural and AFM transitions do, in fact, occur at slightly different
temperatures in the parent BaFe2As2 compound, and evolve towards split
secondorder transitions as the doping concentration is increased. We estimate
the composition for the tricritical point for Co-doping and employ a mean-field
approach to show that our measurements can be explained by the inclusion of an
anharmonic term in the elastic free energy and magneto-elastic coupling in the
form of an emergent Ising-nematic degree of freedom.Comment: 10 pages, 11 figures; accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Magnetic excitations in underdoped Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 with x=0.047
The magnetic excitations in the paramagnetic-tetragonal phase of underdoped
Ba(Fe0.953Co0.047)2As2, as measured by inelastic neutron scattering, can be
well described by a phenomenological model with purely diffusive spin dynamics.
At low energies, the spectrum around the magnetic ordering vector Q_AFM
consists of a single peak with elliptical shape in momentum space. At high
energies, this inelastic peak is split into two peaks across the direction
perpendicular to Q_AFM. We use our fittings to argue that such a splitting is
not due to incommensurability or propagating spin-wave excitations, but is
rather a consequence of the anisotropies in the Landau damping and in the
magnetic correlation length, both of which are allowed by the tetragonal
symmetry of the system. We also measure the magnetic spectrum deep inside the
magnetically-ordered phase, and find that it is remarkably similar to the
spectrum of the paramagnetic phase, revealing the strongly overdamped character
of the magnetic excitations.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figure
Commensurate antiferromagnetic ordering in Ba(Fe{1-x}Co{x})2As2 determined by x-ray resonant magnetic scattering at the Fe K-edge
We describe x-ray resonant magnetic diffraction measurements at the Fe K-edge
of both the parent BaFe2As2 and superconducting Ba(Fe0.953Co0.047)2As2
compounds. From these high-resolution measurements we conclude that the
magnetic structure is commensurate for both compositions. The energy spectrum
of the resonant scattering is in reasonable agreement with theoretical
calculations using the full-potential linear augmented plane wave method with a
local density functional.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B Rapid
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Antiferromagnetic order in CaK(Fe[1-x]Ni[x])4As4 and its interplay with superconductivity
The magnetic order in CaK(Fe[1-x]Ni[x])4As4 (1144) single crystals (x = 0.051
and 0.033) has been studied by neutron diffraction. We observe magnetic Bragg
peaks associated to the same propagation vectors as found for the collinear
stripe antiferromagnetic (AFM) order in the related BaFe2As2 (122) compound.
The AFM state in 1144 preserves tetragonal symmetry and only a commensurate,
non-collinear structure with a hedgehog spin-vortex crystal (SVC) arrangement
in the Fe plane and simple AFM stacking along the c direction is consistent
with our observations. The SVC order is promoted by the reduced symmetry in the
FeAs layer in the 1144 structure. The long-range SVC order coexists with
superconductivity, however, similar to the doped 122 compounds, the ordered
magnetic moment is gradually suppressed with the developing superconducting
order parameter. This supports the notion that both collinear and non-collinear
magnetism and superconductivity are competing for the same electrons coupled by
Fermi surface nesting in iron arsenide superconductors.Comment: (5 pages, 5 figures
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