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    Effective tight-binding model for the iron vacancy ordered Ay_{y}Fe%_{1.6}Se2_{2}

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    We investigate the electronic structure of the ternary iron selenide Ky_{y}% Fe1.6_{1.6}Se2_{2} by considering the spatial symmetry of the 55\sqrt{5}% \times \sqrt{5} vacancy ordered structure. Based on three orbitals of % t_{2g}, which are believed to play major physics in iron-based superconductors, an effective two-dimensional tight binding Hamiltonian is constructed with the vacancy ordered structure being explicitly included. It is shown that the constructed band model, when combined with generalized Hubbard interactions, yields a spin susceptibility which exhibits both the block-checkerboard antiferromagnetism instability and the stripe antiferromagnetism instability. In particular, for large Hund's rule couplings, the block-checkerboard antiferromagnetism wins over the stripe antiferromagnetism, in agreement with the observation in experiments. We argue that such a model with correct symmetry and Fermi surface structures should be the starting point to model Ky_{y}Fe1.6_{1.6}Se2_{2}. The spin fluctuations at q\mathbf{q}=(Ο€,Ο€\pi ,\pi ) suggest that interblock fluctuations of spins might play an important role in the mechanism of superconductivity occurring in this system.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure
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