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Magnetic anisotropy in hole-doped superconducting Ba 0.67K 0.33Fe 2As2 probed by polarized inelastic neutron scattering
We use polarized inelastic neutron scattering (INS) to study spin excitations
of optimally hole-doped superconductor BaKFeAs
( K).
In the normal state, the imaginary part of the dynamic susceptibility,
, shows magnetic anisotropy for energies below
7 meV with c-axis polarized spin excitations larger than that of the
in-plane component. Upon entering into the superconducting state, previous
unpolarized INS experiments have shown that spin gaps at 5 and 0.75 meV
open at wave vectors and , respectively, with a
broad neutron spin resonance at meV. Our neutron polarization analysis
reveals that the large difference in spin gaps is purely due to different spin
gaps in the c-axis and in-plane polarized spin excitations, resulting resonance
with different energy widths for the c-axis and in-plane spin excitations. The
observation of spin anisotropy in both opitmally electron and hole-doped
BaFeAs is due to their proximity to the AF ordered BaFeAs where
spin anisotropy exists below .Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Doping influence of spin dynamics and magnetoelectric effect in hexagonal YLuMnO
We use inelastic neutron scattering to study spin waves and their correlation
with the magnetoelectric effect in YLuMnO. In the undoped
YMnO and LuMnO, the Mn trimerization distortion has been suggested to
play a key role in determining the magnetic structure and the magnetoelectric
effect. In YLuMnO, we find a much smaller in-plane
(hexagonal -plane) single ion anisotropy gap that coincides with a weaker
in-plane dielectric anomaly at . Since both the smaller in-plane
anisotropy gap and the weaker in-plane dielectric anomaly are coupled to a
weaker Mn trimerization distortion in YLuMnO comparing to
YMnO and LuMnO, we conclude that the Mn trimerization is responsible
for the magnetoelectric effect and multiferroic phenomenon in
YLuMnO.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Electron doping evolution of the magnetic excitations in NaFeCoAs
We use time-of-flight (ToF) inelastic neutron scattering (INS) spectroscopy
to investigate the doping dependence of magnetic excitations across the phase
diagram of NaFeCoAs with and .
The effect of electron-doping by partially substituting Fe by Co is to form
resonances that couple with superconductivity, broaden and suppress low energy
( meV) spin excitations compared with spin waves in undoped NaFeAs.
However, high energy ( meV) spin excitations are weakly Co-doping
dependent. Integration of the local spin dynamic susceptibility
of NaFeCoAs reveals a total
fluctuating moment of 3.6 /Fe and a small but systematic reduction
with electron doping. The presence of a large spin gap in the Co-overdoped
nonsuperconducting NaFeCoAs suggests that Fermi surface
nesting is responsible for low-energy spin excitations. These results parallel
Ni-doping evolution of spin excitations in BaFeNiAs, confirming
the notion that low-energy spin excitations coupling with itinerant electrons
are important for superconductivity, while weakly doping dependent high-energy
spin excitations result from localized moments.Comment: 14 pages, 16 figure
Electron doping evolution of the neutron spin resonance in NaFeCoAs
Neutron spin resonance, a collective magnetic excitation coupled to
superconductivity, is one of the most prominent features shared by a broad
family of unconventional superconductors including copper oxides, iron
pnictides, and heavy fermions. In this work, we study the doping evolution of
the resonances in NaFeCoAs covering the entire superconducting
dome. For the underdoped compositions, two resonance modes coexist. As doping
increases, the low-energy resonance gradually loses its spectral weight to the
high-energy one but remains at the same energy. By contrast, in the overdoped
regime we only find one single resonance, which acquires a broader width in
both energy and momentum, but retains approximately the same peak position even
when drops by nearly a half compared to optimal doping. These results
suggest that the energy of the resonance in electron overdoped
NaFeCoAs is neither simply proportional to nor the
superconducting gap, but is controlled by the multi-orbital character of the
system and doped impurity scattering effect.Comment: accepted by PR
Superconductivity and electronic fluctuations in Ba1−xKxFe2As2 studied by Raman scattering
Using polarization-resolved electronic Raman scattering we study underdoped, optimally doped, and overdoped Ba1−xKxFe2As2 samples in the normal and superconducting states. We show that low-energy nematic fluctuations are universal for all studied doping ranges. In the superconducting state, we observe two distinct superconducting pair-breaking peaks corresponding to one large and one small superconducting gap. In addition, we detect a collective mode below the superconducting transition in the B2g channel and determine the evolution of its binding energy with doping. Possible scenarios are proposed to explain the origin of the in-gap collective mode. In the superconducting state of the underdoped regime, we detect a reentrance transition below which the spectral background changes and the collective mode vanishes