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Superconductivity mediated by the antiferromagnetic spin-wave in chalcogenide iron-base superconductors
The ground state of KFeSe and other iron-based
selenide superconductors are doped antiferromagnetic semiconductors. There are
well defined iron local moments whose energies are separated from those of
conduction electrons by a large band gap in these materials. We propose that
the low energy physics of this system is governed by a model Hamiltonian of
interacting electrons with on-site ferromagnetic exchange interactions and
inter-site superexchange interactions. We have derived the effective pairing
potential of electrons under the linear spin-wave approximation and shown that
the superconductivity can be driven by mediating coherent spin wave excitations
in these materials. Our work provides a natural account for the coexistence of
superconducting and antiferromagnetic long range orders observed by neutron
scattering and other experiments.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Magnetic Frustration and Iron-Vacancy Ordering in Iron-Chalcogenide
We show that the magnetic and vacancy orders in the 122
iron-chalcogenides can be naturally derived from the
model with being the ferromagnetic (FM) nearest neighbor
exchange coupling and being the antiferromagnetic (AFM) next and
third nearest neighbor ones respectively, previously proposed to describe the
magnetism in the 11(FeTe/Se) systems. In the 11 systems, the magnetic exchange
couplings are extremely frustrated in the ordered bi-collinear
antiferromagnetic state so that the magnetic transition temperature is low. In
the 122 systems, the formation of iron vacancy order reduces the magnetic
frustration and significantly increases the magnetic transition temperature and
the ordered magnetic moment. The pattern of the 245 iron-vacancy order
() observed in experiments is correlated to the
maximum reduction of magnetic frustration. The nature of the iron-vacancy
ordering may hence be electronically driven. We explore other possible vacancy
patterns and magnetic orders associated with them. We also calculate the spin
wave excitations and their novel features to test our model.Comment: Figures are modified and more discussion is adde
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