Elucidating the nature of spin excitations is important to understanding the mechanism of superconductivity in the iron pnictides. Motivated by recent inelastic neutron scattering measurements in the nearly 100% detwinned BaFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$, we study the spin dynamics of an $S=1$ frustrated bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg model in the antiferromagnetic phase with wavevector $(π,0)$. The biquadratic interactions are treated in a dynamical way using a flavor-wave theory in an $SU(3)$ representation. Besides the magnon (dipolar) excitations, the biquadratic interactions give rise to quadrupolar excitations at high energies. We find that the quadrupolar wave significantly influences, in an energy dependent way, the anisotropy between the spin excitation spectra along the $(π,0)$ and $(0,π)$ directions in the wave vector space. Our theoretical results capture the essential behavior of the spin dynamics measured in the antiferromagnetic phase of the detwinned BaFe$_2$As$_2$. More generally, our results underscore the importance of electron correlation effects for the microscopic physics of the iron pnictides.
Self-consistent spin-wave theory for a frustrated Heisenberg model with biquadratic exchange in the columnar phase and its application to iron pnictides
We use inelastic neutron scattering to show that long-range spin waves arising from the static bicollinear antiferromagnetic (AF) order in FeTe, which have twofold rotational symmetry in a fully detwinned crystal, rapidly dissolve above $E\approx 26$ meV into ridges of scattering with fourfold rotational symmetry and a nearly isotropic magnetic fluctuation spectrum. With increasing temperature above $T_N\approx 68$ K, the twofold spin waves change into broad regions of scattering with fourfold symmetry. Since the scattering patterns from plaquette magnetic order generated within a bilinear biq…
Thermopower as sensitive probe of electronic nematicity in iron pnictides
本文研究了EuFePDMATHABMM（As $_{1-x}$ P $_{x}$）$_2$退孪晶单晶的热电势和电阻率的面内各向异性。与电阻率各向异性相比，热电势各向异性在远高于结构和磁性相变的温度下更明显并且已经清晰可见。最显著的是，热电势各向异性在结构转变下方改变符号。这是与两个贡献的相互作用，由于各向异性散射和轨道极化，这在高温和低温下分别占主导地位。
Understanding magnetic interactions in the parent compounds of high-temperature superconductors forms the basis for determining their role for the mechanism of superconductivity. For parent compounds of iron pnictide superconductors such as $A$Fe$_2$As$_2$ ($A=$ Ba, Ca, Sr), although spin excitations have been mapped out throughout the entire Brillouin zone (BZ), measurements were carried out on twinned samples and did not allow for a conclusive determination of the spin dynamics. Here we use inelastic neutron scattering to completely map out spin excitations of $\sim$100\% detwinned BaFe$_2$A…
Motivated by growing indications for a distinct form of nematic correlations in the extremely hole doped iron pnictide compounds $A$Fe$_2$As$_2$ ($A$=K,Rb,Cs), we consider spin-driven nematic order in the general case of incommensurate magnetic fluctuations. We classify the nematic order parameters by broken mirror symmetries of the tetragonal $D_{4h}$ point group, and use this scheme to construct a general Ginzburg-Landau theory that links the nematic order to spatial pattern of magnetic fluctuations. Our analysis points to incommensurate magnetic fluctuations of wavevector $(q,q)$ as underly…
Understanding the nature of the electronic nematic phase in iron pnictide superconductors is important for elucidating its impact on high-temperature superconductivity. Here we use transport and inelastic neutron scattering to study spin excitations and in-plane resistivity anisotropy in uniaxial pressure detwinned BaFe$_2$As$_2$ and SrFe$_2$As$_2$, the parent compounds of iron pnictide superconductors. While BaFe$_2$As$_2$ exhibits weakly first order tetragonal-to-orthorhombic structural and antiferromagnetic (AF) phase transitions below $T_s > T_N\approx 138$ K, SrFe$_2$As$_2$ has strongly c…
Electronic nematic correlations in the stress free tetragonal state of BaFe$_{2-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$
利用输运和中子散射方法研究了电子掺杂的BaFe $_{2-x}$ Ni $_x$ As $_2$铁磷族化合物在无外应力退孪晶状态下的电子、结构和磁性。使用一个专门设计的原位机械退孪装置，我们表明，在单轴应变四重态BaFe $_{2-x}$ Ni $_x$作为$_2$低于温度$T^\ast$，以前确定为电子退孪相的签名，也存在于应力自由四重态下$T^{\ast\ast}$（$<T^\ast$）的平面电阻率各向异性。通过对BaFe $_2$ As $_2$和BaFe $_{1.97}$ Ni $_{0.03}$ As $_2$的中子散射测量，我们认为铁磷属元素化物无应力四重态的电阻率各向异性是由与反铁磁序有关的磁弹耦合引起的。这些结果表明，局域晶格畸变和自旋关联是造成铁磷属元素化物四重态电阻率各向异性的原因。
FeSe is arguably the simplest, yet the most enigmatic, iron-based superconductor. Its nematic but non-magnetic ground state is unprecedented in this class of materials and stands out as a current puzzle. Here, our NMR measurements in the nematic state of mechanically detwinned FeSe reveal that both the Knight shift and the spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T_1 possess an in-plane anisotropy opposite to that of the iron pnictides LaFeAsO and BaFe2As2. Using a microscopic electron model that includes spin-orbit coupling, our calculations show that an opposite quasiparticle weight ratio between the …
We use transport and inelastic neutron scattering measurements to investigate single crystals of iron pnictide BaFe$_{2-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ ($x=0,0.03$), which exhibit a tetragonal-to-orthorhombic structural transition at $T_s$ and stripe antiferromagnetic order at $T_N$ ($T_s\geq T_N$). Using a tunable uniaxial pressure device, we detwin the crystals and study their transport and spin excitation properties at antiferromagnetic wave vector $S_1(1,0)$ and its 90$^\circ$ rotated wave vector $S_2(0,1)$ under different pressure conditions. We find that uniaxial pressure necessary to detwin and mai…
Theoretical study on the anisotropic electronic structure of antiferromagnetic BaFe$_2$As$_2$ and Co-doped Ba(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$)$_2$As$_2$ seen by angle-resolved photoemission
用一步模型计算方法研究了铁磷属元素化物原型化合物BaFe $_2$ As $_2$和Ba（Fe $_{1-x}$ Co $_x$）$_2$ As $_2$在低温反铁磁相中的角分辨光电发射中所表现出的强面内各向异性.完全相对论计算是基于Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker-Green函数方法结合相干势近似合金理论，以一种可靠的方式来解释Co取代Fe位引起的无序。计算的结果可以直接与实验光谱的解孪晶单晶。人们发现非常好的协议与实验，可以揭示所有的电子结构的功能，有助于在平面各向异性。特别是局域密度近似可以捕捉到大多数的相关效应的调查系统，而不需要更先进的技术。此外，可以几乎连续地跟踪Ba（Fe $x$ Co $_x$）$_2$ As $_2$中随Co浓度增加的各向异性的演变。结果也被用来讨论表面效应，它是可能的，以确定明确的签名，以得出不同类型的表面终止。
