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铁氧硫属化物莫特绝缘体中的向列涨落

Nematic Fluctuations in Iron-Oxychalcogenide Mott Insulators

B. Freelon, R. Sarkar, S. Kamusella, F. Brückner, V. Grinenko, Swagata Acharya, Mukul Laad, Luis Craco, Zahra Yamani, Roxana Flacau, Ian Swainson, Benjamin Fran… 展开作者

B. Freelon, R. Sarkar, S. Kamusella, F. Brückner, V. Grinenko, Swagata Acharya, Mukul Laad, Luis Craco, Zahra Yamani, Roxana Flacau, Ian Swainson, Benjamin Frandsen, Robert Birgeneau, Yuhao Liu, Bhupendra Karki, Alaa Alfailakawi, Joerg C. Neuefeind, Michelle Everett, Hangdong Wang, Binjie Xu, Minghu Fang, H. -H. Klauss

摘要:

向列波动发生在从液晶到生物分子到固体的广泛的物理系统中,例如外来磁体、铜酸盐和铁基高$T_c$超导体。向列涨落被认为与铁基超导体中库珀对的形成密切相关。目前还不清楚这种向列性中固有的各向异性是否来自电子自旋或轨道自由度。研究了结构上与铁磷属元素化物超导体相似的铁基莫特绝缘体La $_{2}$ O $_{2}$ Fe $_{2}$ O $M$ $_{2}$ $M$ =(S,Se)。它们的电子相图也接近铁磷属元素化物。核磁共振(NMR)揭示了一个关键的慢下来的自旋晶格弛豫速率($1/T_1$)观察到的涨落。这是通过使用穆斯堡尔谱在类似的温度范围内观察电场梯度的变化来补充的。应用于原子核结构的中子对分布函数技术揭示了在很宽的温度范围内存在局部的$C_2$波动,而中子衍射表明,全球$C_{4}$对称性被保留。理论建模的几何挫折自旋$1$海森堡模型与双二次和单离子各向异性条款提供了解释的磁涨落的隐藏的四极自旋波动。向列性与几何阻挫磁性密切相关,后者来自轨道选择性。结果突出的轨道秩序和自旋波动的出现在铁基氧硫族化合物的向列性。在这些莫特绝缘体内的磁通波动的检测扩展了显示短程磁通断裂的铁基材料的组。

英文摘要:

Nematic fluctuations occur in a wide range of physical systems from liquid crystals to biological molecules to solids such as exotic magnets, cuprates and iron-based high-$T_c$ superconductors. Nematic fluctuations are thought to be closely linked to the formation of Cooper-pairs in iron-based superconductors. It is unclear whether the anisotropy inherent in this nematicity arises from electronic spin or orbital degrees of freedom. We have studied the iron-based Mott insulators La$_{2}$O$_{2}$Fe$_{2}$O$M$$_{2}$ $M$ = (S, Se) which are structurally similar to the iron pnictide superconductors. They are also in close electronic phase diagram proximity to the iron pnictides. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) revealed a critical slowing down of nematic fluctuations as observed by the spin-lattice relaxation rate ($1/T_1$). This is complemented by the observation of a change of electrical field gradient over a similar temperature range using Mössbauer spectroscopy. The neutron pair distribution function technique applied to the nuclear structure reveals the presence of local nematic $C_2$ fluctuations over a wide temperature range while neutron diffraction indicates that global $C_{4}$ symmetry is preserved. Theoretical modeling of a geometrically frustrated spin-$1$ Heisenberg model with biquadratic and single-ion anisotropic terms provides the interpretation of magnetic fluctuations in terms of hidden quadrupolar spin fluctuations. Nematicity is closely linked to geometrically frustrated magnetism, which emerges from orbital selectivity. The results highlight orbital order and spin fluctuations in the emergence of nematicity in Fe-based oxychalcogenides. The detection of nematic fluctuation within these Mott insulator expands the group of iron-based materials that show short-range symmetry-breaking.

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