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Zhao J, Gu Q. Cooper Pairing in A Doped 2D Antiferromagnet with Spin-Orbit Coupling. Sci Rep 2018; 8:892. [PMID: 29343734 PMCID: PMC5772527 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-19038-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2017] [Accepted: 12/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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We study the two-dimensional Hubbard model with the Rashba type spin-orbit coupling within and beyond the mean-field theory. The antiferromagnetic ground state for the model at half-filling and the Cooper pairing induced by antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations near half-filling are examined based on the random-phase approximation. We show that the antiferromagnetic order is suppressed and the magnetic susceptibility turns out to be anisotropic in the presence of the spin-orbit coupling. Energy spectrums of transverse spin fluctuations are obtained and the effective interactions between holes mediated by antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations are deduced in the case of low hole doping. It seems that the spin-orbit coupling tends to form s+p-wave Cooper pairs, while the s+d-wave pairing is dominant when the spin-orbit coupling is absent.
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- Jingxiang Zhao
- Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, P. R. China
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- Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, P. R. China.
- Beijing Key Laboratory for Magneto-Photoelectrical Composite and Interface Science, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, P. R. China.
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Opačić M, Lazarević N, Radonjić MM, Šćepanović M, Ryu H, Wang A, Tanasković D, Petrovic C, Popović ZV. Raman spectroscopy of K x Co 2-y Se 2 single crystals near the ferromagnet-paramagnet transition. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2016; 28:485401. [PMID: 27705954 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/48/485401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Polarized Raman scattering spectra of the K x Co2-y Se2 single crystals reveal the presence of two phonon modes, assigned as of the A 1g and B 1g symmetry. The absence of additional modes excludes the possibility of vacancy ordering, unlike in K x Fe2-y Se2. The ferromagnetic (FM) phase transition at [Formula: see text] K leaves a clear fingerprint on the temperature dependence of the Raman mode energy and linewidth. For [Formula: see text] the temperature dependence looks conventional, driven by the thermal expansion and anharmonicity. The Raman modes are rather broad due to the electron-phonon coupling increased by the disorder and spin fluctuation effects. In the FM phase the phonon frequency of both modes increases, while an opposite trend is seen in their linewidth: the A 1g mode narrows in the FM phase, whereas the B 1g mode broadens. We argue that the large asymmetry and anomalous frequency shift of the B 1g mode is due to the coupling of spin fluctuations and vibration. Our density functional theory (DFT) calculations for the phonon frequencies agree rather well with the Raman measurements, with some discrepancy being expected since the DFT calculations neglect the spin fluctuations.
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- M Opačić
- Center for Solid State Physics and New Materials, Institute of Physics Belgrade, University of Belgrade, Pregrevica 118, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia
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Nadeem K, Zhang W, Chen DY, Ren ZA, Qiu XG. Slow Spin Dynamics in Superconducting Ca0.9Ce0.1Fe2As2. Sci Rep 2015; 5:10700. [PMID: 26024047 PMCID: PMC4448653 DOI: 10.1038/srep10700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2015] [Accepted: 04/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Slow spin dynamics has been observed in superconducting under-doped Ca0.9Ce0.1Fe2As2 single crystal. Below 100 K, the system exhibits hysteresis in the cooling and warming protocols of temperature dependent resistivity due to first order tetragonal to orthorhombic structural transition with simultaneous magnetic transition from paramagnetic to spin density wave antiferromagnetic state of the iron (Fe) ions. Zero field cooled/field cooled (ZFC/FC) magnetization curves showed splitting at 32 K followed by a sharp increase of the FC curve and then FC plateau at low temperatures. Slow spin relaxation in both the ZFC and FC protocols was observed which is typical for spin-glass system. The system also showed features analogue to spin-glass behavior such as ZFC peak, FC plateau, ZFC slow spin relaxation, magnetic hysteresis, and ZFC ac memory effect. The spin-glass like behavior was rather weak and vanished at higher fields. The origin of the slow spin dynamics could be the inhomogeneous distribution of the cerium (Ce) spins ordered along the c-axis OR interactions between Fe and Ce spins which lead to magnetic frustration of Ce spins. All these findings support the coexistence of slow spin dynamics of Ce spins and superconductivity in Ca0.9Ce0.1Fe2As2 single crystal.
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- K. Nadeem
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing 100190, China
- Department of Physics, International Islamic University, H-10, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Physical Science and Technology & Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing 100190, China
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Hinojosa A, Fernandes RM, Chubukov AV. Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity in the coexistence phase with magnetism in Fe pnictides. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2014; 113:167001. [PMID: 25361274 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.167001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We argue that superconductivity in the coexistence region with spin-density-wave (SDW) order in weakly doped Fe pnictides erdiffers qualitatively from the ordinary s(+-) state outside the coexistence region as it develops an additional gap component which is a mixture of intrapocket singlet (s(++)) and interpocket spin-triplet pairings (the t state). The coupling constant for the t channel is proportional to the SDW order and involves interactions that do not contribute to superconductivity outside of the SDW region. We argue that the s(+-)- and t-type superconducting orders coexist at low temperatures, and the relative phase between the two is, in general, different from 0 or π, manifesting explicitly the breaking of the time-reversal symmetry promoted by long-range SDW order. We argue that time reversal may get broken even before true superconductivity develops.
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- Alberto Hinojosa
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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Raghavendra Reddy V, Bharathi A, Gupta A, Sharma K, Chandra S, Sharma S, Vinod K, Sundar CS. 57Fe Mössbauer studies across the spin density wave transition in BaFe2-xRuxAs2. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2014; 26:356002. [PMID: 25115987 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/35/356002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Mössbauer measurements have been carried out in powdered single crystalline samples of BaFe(2-x)RuxAs(2), for Ru concentration in the x = 0.0-0.5 range. The internal hyperfine field (B(hf)) measured at 5 K is found to decrease with an increase in Ru concentration, consistent with the disappearance of a magnetic ground state with Ru substitution. The temperature dependent Mössbauer measurements have been used to study the evolution of magnetic ordering at the Fe sites, in samples with a Ru fraction of x = 0.1 and 0.5. From the analysis of the data, it is surmised that the isomer shift increases with a decrease in temperature, with a characteristic slope change at the structural transition in both samples studied. In both the x = 0.1 and x = 0.5 samples, a low B(hf) centred around 0.5 Tesla is seen to occur well above the structural transition temperature, the contribution from which is suppressed with a decrease in temperature. Below the structural transition temperature, a bimodal distribution of B(hf) centred at about 3 Tesla and 5 Tesla emerges, the contribution from which increases with a further decrease in temperature. Spin polarized density functional calculations suggest the occurrence of different magnetic moments at the Fe sites in the Ru substituted compounds, and provide a rationale for the experimentally observed multimodel B(hf).
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- V Raghavendra Reddy
- UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, University Campus, Khandwa Road, Indore-452001, India
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Charnukha A. Optical conductivity of iron-based superconductors. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2014; 26:253203. [PMID: 24899620 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/25/253203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The new family of unconventional iron-based superconductors discovered in 2006 immediately relieved their copper-based high-temperature predecessors as the most actively studied superconducting compounds in the world. The experimental and theoretical effort made in order to unravel the mechanism of superconductivity in these materials has been overwhelming. Although our understanding of their microscopic properties has been improving steadily, the pairing mechanism giving rise to superconducting transition temperatures up to 55 K remains elusive. And yet the hope is strong that these materials, which possess a drastically different electronic structure but similarly high transition temperatures compared to the copper-based compounds, will shed essential new light onto the several-decade-old problem of unconventional superconductivity. In this work we review the current understanding of the itinerant-charge-carrier dynamics in the iron-based superconductors and parent compounds largely based on the optical conductivity data the community has gleaned over the past seven years using such experimental techniques as reflectivity, ellipsometry, and terahertz transmission measurements and analyze the implications of these studies for the microscopic properties of the iron-based materials as well as the mechanism of superconductivity therein.
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Li G, Liang L, Li Q, Pan M, Nascimento VB, He X, Karki AB, Meunier V, Jin R, Zhang J, Plummer EW. Role of antiferromagnetic ordering in the (1×2) surface reconstruction of Ca(Fe(1-x)Co(x))2As2. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2014; 112:077205. [PMID: 24579633 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.077205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Low energy electron diffraction, scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, and first-principles spin-dependent density functional theory are utilized to investigate the geometric, electronic, and magnetic structures of the stripe-ordered (1×2) surface of Ca(Fe1-xCox)2As2 (x=0, 0.075). The surface is terminated with a 50% Ca layer. Compared to the bulk, the surface Ca layer has a large inward relaxation (∼0.5 Å), and the underneath As-Fe2-As layer displays a significant buckling. First-principles calculations show that the (1×2) phase is stabilized by the bulk antiferromagnetic spin ordering through the spin-charge-lattice coupling. Strikingly, a superconducting gap (∼7 meV at 7.4 K) is observed to spatially coexist with the (1×2) phase (x=0.075 compound). This implies the coexistence of both superconductivity and AFM ordering at the surface.
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- Guorong Li
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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