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FeSe薄膜中电子向列性与结构各向异性的纳米尺度解耦

Nanoscale decoupling of electronic nematicity and structural anisotropy in FeSe thin films

Zheng Ren, Hong Li, He Zhao, Shrinkhala Sharma, Ziqiang Wang, Ilija Zeljkovic

摘要:

在倾向于双稳态不稳定性的材料中,各向异性应变原则上为电子双稳态提供了优选的双稳态断裂方向。这与实验观察结果一致,其中电子向列性和结构各向异性通常出现手牵手。在这项工作中,我们发现,电子向列性可以局部解耦的应变工程铁硒化物(FeSe)薄膜的基本结构各向异性。我们使用异质外延分子束外延生长FeSe与纳米级网络的调制,引起空间变化的应变。我们映射局部各向异性应变通过分析扫描隧道显微镜拓扑图,并可视化电子畴从伴随的光谱图。虽然域的形式,使能量的线弹性耦合最小化,我们观察到不同的区域,电子的双稳态排序未能翻转方向,即使底层的结构各向异性是局部逆转。研究结果指向纳米尺度的刚度的有序序参量。

英文摘要:

In a material prone to a nematic instability, anisotropic strain in principle provides a preferred symmetry-breaking direction for the electronic nematic state to follow. This is consistent with experimental observations, where electronic nematicity and structural anisotropy typically appear hand-in-hand. In this work, we discover that electronic nematicity can be locally decoupled from the underlying structural anisotropy in strain-engineered iron-selenide (FeSe) thin films. We use heteroepitaxial molecular beam epitaxy to grow FeSe with a nanoscale network of modulations that give rise to spatially varying strain. We map local anisotropic strain by analyzing scanning tunneling microscopy topographs, and visualize electronic nematic domains from concomitant spectroscopic maps. While the domains form so that the energy of nemato-elastic coupling is minimized, we observe distinct regions where electronic nematic ordering fails to flip direction, even though the underlying structural anisotropy is locally reversed. The findings point towards a nanometer-scale stiffness of the nematic order parameter.

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