82 research outputs found
Extended Magnetic Dome Induced by Low Pressures in Superconducting FeSeS
We report muon spin rotation (SR) and magnetization measurements under
pressure on FeSeS with x
.Above GPa we find microscopic coexistence of
superconductivity with an extended dome of long range magnetic order that spans
a pressure range between previously reported separated magnetic phases. The
magnetism initially competes on an atomic scale with the coexisting
superconductivity leading to a local maximum and minimum of the superconducting
. The maximum of corresponds to the onset of
magnetism while the minimum coincides with the pressure of strongest
competition. A shift of the maximum of for a series of single
crystals with x up to 0.14 roughly extrapolates to a putative magnetic and
superconducting state at ambient pressure for x .Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, including supplemental materia
Magnetic and superconducting transitions in BaKFeAs studied by specific heat
We report on specific heat measurements in BaKFeAs
(). For the underdoped sample with both the spin-density-wave
transition at K and the superconducting transition at 23 K can be
identified. The electronic contribution to the specific heat in the
superconducting state for concentrations in the vicinity of optimal doping
can be well described by a full single-gap within the BCS limit.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, 2 table
Correlation effects in Ni 3d states of LaNiPO
The electronic structure of the new superconducting material LaNiPO
experimentally probed by soft X-ray spectroscopy and theoretically calculated
by the combination of local density approximation with Dynamical Mean-Field
Theory (LDA+DMFT) are compared herein. We have measured the Ni L2,3 X-ray
emission (XES) and absorption (XAS) spectra which probe the occupied and
unoccupied the Ni 3d states, respectively. In LaNiPO, the Ni 3d states are
strongly renormalized by dynamical correlations and shifted about 1.5 eV lower
in the valence band than the corresponding Fe 3d states in LaFeAsO. We further
obtain a lower Hubbard band at -9 eV below the Fermi level in LaNiPO which
bears striking resemblance to the lower Hubbard band in the correlated oxide
NiO, while no such band is observed in LaFeAsO. These results are also
supported by the intensity ratio between the transition metal L2 and L3 bands
measured experimentally to be higher in LaNiPO than in LaFeAsO, indicating the
presence of the stronger electron correlations in the Ni 3d states in LaNiPO in
comparison with the Fe 3d states in LaFeAsO. These findings are in accordance
with resonantly excited transition metal L3 X-ray emission spectra which probe
occupied metal 3d-states and show the appearance of the lower Hubbard band in
LaNiPO and NiO and its absence in LaFeAsO.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Local structural studies of BaKFeAs using atomic pair distribution function analysis
Systematic local structural studies of BaKFeAs system are
undertaken at room temperature using atomic pair distribution function (PDF)
analysis. The local structure of the BaKFeAs is found to be
well described by the long-range structure extracted from the diffraction
experiments, but with anisotropic atomic vibrations of the constituent atoms
( = ). The crystal unit cell parameters, the
FeAs tetrahedral angle and the pnictogen height above the Fe-plane are seen
to show systematic evolution with K doping, underlining the importance of the
structural changes, in addition to the charge doping, in determining the
properties of BaKFeAs
Electronic structure studies of BaFe2As2 by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
We report high resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)
studies of the electronic structure of BaFeAs, which is one of the
parent compounds of the Fe-pnictide superconductors. ARPES measurements have
been performed at 20 K and 300 K, corresponding to the orthorhombic
antiferromagnetic phase and the tetragonal paramagnetic phase, respectively.
Photon energies between 30 and 175 eV and polarizations parallel and
perpendicular to the scattering plane have been used. Measurements of the Fermi
surface yield two hole pockets at the -point and an electron pocket at
each of the X-points. The topology of the pockets has been concluded from the
dispersion of the spectral weight as a function of binding energy. Changes in
the spectral weight at the Fermi level upon variation of the polarization of
the incident photons yield important information on the orbital character of
the states near the Fermi level. No differences in the electronic structure
between 20 and 300 K could be resolved. The results are compared with density
functional theory band structure calculations for the tetragonal paramagnetic
phase.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figure
Superconductivity in Fluorine-Arsenide Sr_{1-x}La_xFeAsF
Since the discovery of superconductivity\cite{1} at 26 K in oxy-pnictide
, enormous interests have been stimulated in the fields of
condensed matter physics and material sciences. Among the five different
structures in this broad type of superconductors\cite{2,3,4,5,6}, the ZrCuSiAs
structure has received special attention since the has been quickly
promoted to 55-56 K\cite{7,8,9,10,11} in fluorine doped oxy-pnictides REFeAsO
(RE = rare earth elements). The superconductivity can also be induced by
applying a high pressure to the undoped samples\cite{12,13}. The mechanism of
superconductivity in the FeAs-based system remains unclear yet, but it turns
out to be clear that any change to the structure or the building blocks will
lead to a change of the superconducting transition temperatures. In this
Letter, we report the fabrication of the new family of compounds, namely
fluorine-arsenides DvFeAsF (Dv = divalent metals) with the ZrCuSiAs structure
and with the new building block DvF instead of the REO (both the layers DvF and
REO have the combined cation state of "+1"). The undoped parent phase has a
Spin-Density-Wave like transition at about 173 K for SrFeAsF, 118 K for CaFeAsF
and 153 K for EuFeAsF. By doping electrons into the system the resistivity
anomaly associated with this SDW transition is suppressed and superconductivity
appears at 32 K in the fluorine-arsenide SrLaFeAsF (x = 0.4). Our
discovery here initiates a new method to obtain superconductors in the
FeAs-based system.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, typos added, references added, and one figure
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Contrast of LiFeAs with isostructural, isoelectronic, and non-superconducting MgFeGe
Stoichiometric LiFeAs at ambient pressure is an 18 K superconductor while
isoelectronic MgFeGe is not, despite their extremely similar electronic
structures. To investigate possible sources of this distinctively different
superconducting behavior, we quantify the differences using first principles
density functional theory, establishing first that the Fe total 3d occupations
are identical in the two compounds. Individual 3d orbital occupations also
differ very little (). The differences in Fermi surfaces (FSs) do
not seem significant; however a redistribution of bands just above the Fermi
level does represent a possibly significant distinction. Because the bands and
FSs of LiFeAs are less in agreement with experiment than for other
iron-pnictides, we study the effects of additional exchange-correlations
effects beyond GGA (the generalized gradient approximation) by applying the
modified Becke-Johnson potential (mBJ) exchange potential, which gives much
improved bandgaps in insulators compared to GGA and might be useful for
semimetals such as the Fe-based superconductors. Overall, we conclude that the
mBJ corrections do not improve the description of LiFeAs as compared to
experiment
Distorted magnetic orders and electronic structures of tetragonal FeSe from first-principles
We use the state-of-the-arts density-functional-theory method to study
various magnetic orders and their effects on the electronic structures of the
FeSe. Our calculated results show that, for the spins of the single Fe layer,
the striped antiferromagnetic orders with distortion are more favorable in
total energy than the checkerboard antiferromagnetic orders with tetragonal
symmetry, which is consistent with known experimental data, and the inter-layer
magnetic interaction is very weak. We investigate the electronic structures and
magnetic property of the distorted phases. We also present our calculated spin
coupling constants and discuss the reduction of the Fe magnetic moment by
quantum many-body effects. These results are useful to understand the
structural, magnetic, and electronic properties of FeSe, and may have some
helpful implications to other FeAs-based materials
Synthesis and Properties of CaFeAs Single Crystals
We report the synthesis and basic physical properties of single crystals of
CaFe2As2, an isostructural compound to BaFe2As2 which has been recently doped
to produce superconductivity. CaFe2As2 crystalizes in the ThCr2Si2 structure
with lattice parameters a = 3.907(4) A and c = 11.69(2) A. Magnetic
susceptibility, resistivity, and heat capacity all show a first order phase
transition at T_0 171 K. The magnetic susceptibility is nearly isotropic from 2
K to 350 K. The heat capacity data gives a Sommerfeld coefficient of 8.2 +- 0.3
mJ/molK2, and does not reveal any evidence for the presence of high frequency
(> 300 K) optical phonon modes. The Hall coefficient is negative below the
transition indicating dominant n-type carriers.Comment: Published version, minor change
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