93 research outputs found
Evidence for Orbital Order and its Relation to Superconductivity in FeSe0.4Te0.6
The emergence of nematic electronic states accompanied by a structural phase
transition is a recurring theme in many correlated electron materials,
including the high-temperature copper oxide- and iron-based superconductors. We
provide evidence for nematic electronic states in the iron-chalcogenide
superconductor FeSe0.4Te0.6 from quasi-particle scattering detected in
spectroscopic maps. The symmetry-breaking states persist above Tc into the
normal state. We interpret the scattering patterns by comparison with
quasi-particle interference patterns obtained from a tight-binding model,
accounting for orbital ordering. The relation to superconductivity and the
influence on the coherence length are discussed.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, updated with published versio
Atomic-scale coexistence of short-range magnetic order and superconductivity in FeSeTe
The ground state of the parent compounds of many high temperature
superconductors is an antiferromagnetically (AFM) ordered phase, where
superconductivity emerges when the AFM phase transition is suppressed by doping
or application of pressure. This behaviour implies a close relation between the
two orders. Understanding the interplay between them promises a better
understanding of how the superconducting condensate forms from the AFM ordered
background. Here we explore this relation in real space at the atomic scale
using low temperature spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy (SP-STM) and
spectroscopy. We investigate the transition from antiferromagnetically ordered
via the spin glass phase in
to superconducting
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we observe an
atomic-scale coexistence of superconductivity and short-ranged bicollinear
antiferromagnetic order.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Interplay between Superconductivity and Magnetism in Rb0.8Fe1.6Se2 under Pressure
High-pressure magnetization, structural and 57Fe M\"ossbauer studies were
performed on superconducting Rb0.8Fe1.6Se2.0 with Tc = 32.4 K. The
superconducting transition temperature gradually decreases on increasing
pressure up to 5.0 GPa followed by a marked step-like suppression of
superconductivity near 6 GPa. No structural phase transition in the Fe
vacancy-ordered superstructure is observed in synchrotron XRD studies up to
15.6 GPa, while the M\"ossbauer spectra above 5 GPa reveal the appearance of a
new paramagnetic phase and significant changes in the magnetic and electronic
properties of the dominant antiferromagnetic phase, coinciding with the
disappearance of superconductivity. These findings underline the strong
correlation between antiferromagnetic order and superconductivity in
phase-separated AxFe2-x/2Se2 (A = K, Rb, Cs) superconductors
On the complexity of spinels: magnetic, electronic, and polar ground states
This review summarizes more than 100 years of research on spinel compounds,
mainly focusing on the progress in understanding their magnetic, electronic,
and polar properties during the last two decades. Many spinel compounds are
magnetic insulators or semiconductors; however, a number of spinel-type metals
exists including superconductors and some rare examples of d-derived
heavy-fermion compounds. In the early days, they gained importance as
ferrimagnetic or even ferromagnetic insulators with relatively high saturation
magnetization and high ordering temperatures, with magnetite being the first
magnetic mineral known to mankind. However, spinels played an outstanding role
in the development of concepts of magnetism, in testing and verifying the
fundamentals of magnetic exchange, in understanding orbital-ordering and
charge-ordering phenomena. In addition, the A- site as well as the B-site
cations in the spinel structure form lattices prone to strong frustration
effects resulting in exotic ground-state properties. In case the A-site cation
is Jahn-Teller active, additional entanglements of spin and orbital degrees of
freedom appear, which can give rise to a spin-orbital liquid or an orbital
glass state. The B-site cations form a pyrochlore lattice, one of the strongest
contenders of frustration in three dimensions. In addition, in spinels with
both cation lattices carrying magnetic moments, competing magnetic exchange
interactions become important, yielding ground states like the time-honoured
triangular Yafet-Kittel structure. Finally, yet importantly, there exists a
long-standing dispute about the possibility of a polar ground state in spinels,
despite their reported overall cubic symmetry. Indeed, over the years number of
multiferroic spinels were identified.Comment: 118 pages, 60 figure
Coupled spin-lattice fluctuations in a compound with orbital degrees of freedom: the Cr based dimer system Sr3Cr2O8
We report on an extended fluctuation regime in the spin dimer system Sr3Cr2O8
based on anomalies in Raman active phonons and magnetic scattering. The
compound has two characteristic temperatures, TS = 275 K, related to a
Jahn-Teller transition with structural distortions and orbital ordering and a
second, T*= 150 K, which is due to further changes in the orbital sector. Below
TS quasielastic scattering marks strong fluctuations and in addition phonon
anomalies are observed. For temperatures below T* we observe an exponential
decrease of one phonon linewidth and determine a gap of the orbital
excitations. At low temperatures the observation of two- and three-magnon
scattering allows the determination of the spin excitation gap.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, 1 tabl
Two-dimensional orbital ordering in d1 Mott insulator Sr2VO4
The Mott insulator Sr2VO4 is a unique d1 two-dimensional compound exhibiting an orbital ordering transition. In addition to the orbital ordering transition at about 100 K, we discovered a ferromagnetic transition below 10 K, thus confirming the predictions of recent band structure calculations. The magnetic properties proved to be strongly sensitive to the material purity, the actual oxygen stoichiometry and the crystallographic parameters. An additional transition is observed at 125 K, which is believed to be due to structural modifications
From confined spinons to emergent fermions: Observation of elementary magnetic excitations in a transverse-field Ising chain
We report on spectroscopy study of elementary magnetic excitations in an
Ising-like antiferromagnetic chain compound SrCoVO as a function of
temperature and applied transverse magnetic field up to 25 T. An optical as
well as an acoustic branch of confined spinons, the elementary excitations at
zero field, are identified in the antiferromagnetic phase below the N\'{e}el
temperature of 5 K and described by a one-dimensional Schr\"{o}dinger equation.
The confinement can be suppressed by an applied transverse field and a quantum
disordered phase is induced at 7 T. In this disordered paramagnetic phase, we
observe three emergent fermionic excitations with different transverse-field
dependencies. The nature of these modes is clarified by studying spin dynamic
structure factor of a 1D transverse-field Heisenberg-Ising (XXZ) model using
the method of infinite time evolving block decimation. Our work reveals
emergent quantum phenomena and provides a concrete system for testifying
theoretical predications of one-dimension quantum spin models.Comment: 8 pages and 6 figure
The Orbital Order Parameter in La0.95Sr0.05MnO3 probed by Electron Spin Resonance
The temperature dependence of the electron-spin resonance linewidth in
La0.95Sr0.05MnO3 has been determined and analyzed in the paramagnetic regime
across the orbital ordering transition. From the temperature dependence and the
anisotropy of linewidth and -value the orbital order can be unambiguously
determined via the mixing angle of the wave functions of the -doublet. The linewidth shows a similar evolution with temperature as
resonant x-ray scattering results
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