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2013-06-25
Photo-Disintegration of the Iron Nucleus in Fractured Magnetite Rocks with Magnetostriction
There has been considerable interest in recent experiments on iron nuclear disintegrations observed when rocks containing such nuclei are crushed and fractured. The resulting nuclear transmutations are particularly strong for the case of magnetite rocks, i.e. loadstones. We argue that the fission of the iron nucleus is...
1306.6286v1
2013-07-29
Review of nuclear magnetic resonance studies on iron-based superconductors
The newly discovered iron-based superconductors have triggered renewed enormous research interest in the condensed matter physics community. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a low-energy local probe for studying strongly correlated electrons, and particularly important for high-$T_{\rm C}$ superconductors. In this p...
1307.7528v1
2013-08-12
The substitution effects on electronic structure of iron selenide superconductors
The influence of a partial substitution with S, Te, Co, Ni and Cu atoms on the electronic structure of the FeSe superconductor has been investigated within the density functional theory. The results of the supercell calculations reveal distinct changes of electronic structures of the substituted FeSe systems, which can...
1308.2508v1
2013-09-19
Investigation of atomic and electronic structures of MgOFeSe studied by the first-principles calculations
In order to assist the search of new superconductors in iron selenide materials by intercalation, we calculate the crystal and electronic structures of MgOFeSe using the first-principles density functional theory. MgOFeSe is isotructural to the parent compound of iron pnictide superconductor LaOFeAs. In LaOFeAs, the an...
1309.5079v2
2013-09-27
Constrained non-collinear magnetism in disordered Fe and Fe-Cr alloys
The development of quantitative models for radiation damage effects in iron, iron alloys and steels, particularly for the high temperature properties of the alloys, requires understanding of magnetic interactions, which control the phase stability of ferritic-martensitic, ferritic, and austenitic steels. In this work, ...
1309.7183v1
2013-10-23
The non-magnetic collapsed tetragonal phase of CaFe2As2 and superconductivity in the iron pnictides
The relationship between antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations and superconductivity has become a central topic of research in studies of superconductivity in the iron pnictides. We present unambiguous evidence of the absence of magnetic fluctuations in the non-superconducting collapsed tetragonal phase of CaFe2As2 via i...
1310.6346v1
2013-11-11
Model of the Electronic Structure of Electron-Doped Iron-Based Superconductors: Evidence for Enhanced Spin Fluctuations by Diagonal Electron Hopping
We present a theoretical understanding of the superconducting phase diagram of the electron-doped iron pnictides. We show that, besides the Fermi surface nesting, a peculiar motion of electrons, where the next nearest neighbor (diagonal) hoppings between iron sites dominate over the nearest neighbor ones, plays an impo...
1311.2413v2
2013-11-23
Thirty Femtograms Detection of Iron in Mammalian Cells
Inorganic nanomaterials and particles with enhanced optical, mechanical or magnetic attributes are currently being developed for a wide range of applications. Safety issues have been formulated however concerning their potential cyto- and genotoxicity. For in vivo and in vitro experimentations, recent developments have...
1311.6019v1
2013-12-20
Enhancing the three-dimensional electronic structure in 1111-type iron arsenide superconductors by H-substitution
The 1111-type iron arsenide hydride CaFe1-xCoxAsH was synthesized by high-pressure solid-state reaction, and its electronic structure and superconducting properties were investigated. Bulk superconductivity was observed at x = 0.07-0.26. A maximum superconducting critical temperature Tcmax of 23 K was observed at x = 0...
1312.5818v2
2013-12-20
Band antiferromagnetism in a two-band model for iron pnictides
In this work I investigate a two-band Hubbard model using the Gutzwiller wavefunction. The tight-binding part of the model was constructed to have a gapless spin-density wave state which leads to Dirac points in the bandstructure, a common feature of many iron-pnictide compounds. For quarter, half and three-quarter fil...
1312.5902v2
2013-12-29
Electron capture of iron group nuclei in magnetars
Using the theory of relativity in superstrong magnetic fields (SMFs) and nuclear shell model, we carry out estimation for electron capture (EC) rates on iron group nuclei in SMFs. The rates of change of electronic abundance (RCEA) due to EC are also investigated in SMFs. It is concluded that the EC rates of most iron g...
1312.7552v1
2014-02-17
Electronic Nematicity Revealed by Torque Magnetometry in Iron Arsenide EuFe$_2$(As$_{1-x}$P$_x$)$_2$
Electronic nematics, an electron orientational order which breaks the underlying rotational symmetry, have been observed in iron pnictide superconductors several years after their discovery. However, the universality of the doping dependence of this phase and its relation to other symmetry-breaking orders (such as supe...
1402.4124v1
2014-03-01
Doping dependence of the anisotropic quasiparticle interference in NaFe1-xCoxAs iron-based superconductors
We use scanning tunneling microscopy to investigate the doping dependence of quasiparticle interference (QPI) in NaFe1-xCoxAs iron-based superconductors. The goal is to study the relation between nematic fluctuations and Cooper pairing. In the parent and underdoped compounds, where four-fold rotational symmetry is brok...
1403.0090v1
2014-03-07
The origin of low [alpha/Fe] ratios in extremely metal-poor stars
We show that the low ratios of $\alpha$ elements (Mg, Si, and Ca) to Fe recently found for a small fraction of extremely metal-poor stars can be naturally explained with the nucleosynthesis yields of core-collapse supernovae, i.e., $13-25M_\odot$ supernovae, or hypernovae. For the case without carbon enhancement, the e...
1403.1796v1
2014-03-07
Iron based high transition temperature superconductors
In a superconductor electrons form pairs and electric transport becomes dissipation-less at low temperatures. Recently discovered iron based superconductors have the highest superconducting transition temperature next to copper oxides. In this article, we review material aspects and physical properties of iron based su...
1403.2612v1
2014-03-24
Majorana edge states and topological properties in 1D/2D Rashba semiconductor proximity coupled to iron-based superconductor
We study Majorana edge states and their topological properties of one-dimensional(1D) and two-dimensional(2D) Rashba semiconductor deposited on iron-based superconductor under the applied Zeeman field for various directions. Using the recursive Green's function method, we calculate the local density of states(LDOS) bot...
1403.5857v2
2014-03-25
Electronic correlations determine the phase stability of iron up to the melting temperature
We present theoretical results on the high-temperature phase stability and phonon spectra of paramagnetic bcc iron which explicitly take into account many-body effects. Several peculiarities, including a pronounced softening of the [110] transverse (T$_1$) mode and a dynamical instability of the bcc lattice in harmonic...
1403.6497v1
2014-04-24
A Tentative Size-Luminosity Relation for the Iron Emission-Line Region in Quasars
New reverberation mapping measurements of the size of the optical iron emission-line region in quasars are provided, and a tentative size-luminosity relation for this component is reported. Combined with lag measurements in low-luminosity sources, the results imply an emission-region size that is comparable to and at m...
1404.6142v1
2014-05-14
Observations of MCG-5-23-16 with Suzaku, XMM-Newton and NuSTAR: Disk tomography and Compton hump reverberation
MCG-5-23-16 is one of the first AGN where relativistic reverberation in the iron K line originating in the vicinity of the supermassive black hole was found, based on a short XMM-Newton observation. In this work, we present the results from long X-ray observations using Suzaku, XMM-Newton and NuSTAR designed to map the...
1405.3674v1
2014-05-22
Intrinsic Josephson junctions in the iron-based multi-band superconductor (V2Sr4O6)Fe2As2
In layered superconductors, Josephson junctions may be formed within the unit cell due to sufficiently low interlayer coupling. These intrinsic Josephson junction (iJJ) systems have attracted considerable interest for their application potential in quantum computing as well as efficient sources of THz radiation, closin...
1405.5693v1
2014-05-27
Disorder-induced topological change of the superconducting gap structure in iron pnictides
In superconductors with unconventional pairing mechanisms, the energy gap in the excitation spectrum often has nodes, which allow quasiparticle excitations at low energies. In many cases, e.g. $d$-wave cuprate superconductors, the position and topology of nodes are imposed by the symmetry, and thus the presence of gapl...
1405.6951v2
2014-06-03
Magnetic spectra in the tridiminished-icosahedron \{Fe$_9$\} nano-cluster by inelastic neutron scattering
Inelastic neutron scattering (INS) experiments under applied magnetic field at low temperatures show detailed low lying magnetic excitations in the so called tridiminshed iron icosahedron magnetic molecule. The magnetic molecule consists of nine iron Fe$^{3+}$ ($s = 5/2$) and three phosphorous atoms that are situated o...
1406.0889v1
2014-06-19
Magnetic and Ising quantum phase transitions in a model for isoelectronically tuned iron pnictides
Considerations of the bad-metal behavior led to an early proposal for a quantum critical point under a P for As doping in the iron pnictides, which has since been experimentally observed. We study here an effective model for the isoelectronically tuned pnictides using a large-$N$ approach. The model contains antiferrom...
1406.5136v2
2014-06-30
Laboratories of Oligarchy? How the Iron Law Extends to Peer Production
Peer production projects like Wikipedia have inspired voluntary associations, collectives, social movements, and scholars to embrace open online collaboration as a model of democratic organization. However, many peer production projects exhibit entrenched leadership and deep inequalities, suggesting that they may not f...
1407.0323v1
2014-07-05
Nematic state stabilized by off-site Coulomb interaction in iron-based superconductors
Using a variational Monte Carlo method, we investigate the nematic state in iron-base superconductors based on a three-band Hubbard model. Our results demonstrate that the nematic state, formed by introducing an anisotropic hopping order into the projected wave function, can arise in the underdoped regime when a realis...
1407.1411v1
2014-07-25
Correlation, doping and interband effects on the optical conductivity of iron superconductors
Electronic interactions in multiorbital systems lead to non-trivial features in the optical spectrum. In iron superconductors the Drude weight is strongly suppressed with hole-doping. We discuss why the common association of the renormalization of the Drude weight with that of the kinetic energy, used in single band sy...
1407.6935v2
2014-07-31
Superconducting Gap and Symmetry in FeSe_1-x_Te_x_ Studied by Specific Heat in Magnetic Fields
In order to investigate details of the superconducting (SC) gap in the iron-chalcogenide superconductors, the specific heat, C, of FeSe_1-x_Te_x_ with x=0.6-1 has been measured in magnetic fields. Using the two-gap model, it has been found that the smaller SC gap is significantly depressed by the application of magneti...
1407.8266v1
2014-08-01
Charge-Stripe Order in a Parent Compound of Iron-based Superconductors
Charge ordering is one of the most intriguing and extensively studied phenomena in correlated electronic materials because of its strong impact on electron transport properties including superconductivity. Despite its ubiquitousness in correlated systems, the occurrence of charge ordering in iron-based superconductors ...
1408.0057v1
2014-08-06
Orbital Nematic Order and Interplay with Magnetism in the Two-Orbital Hubbard Model
Motivated by the recent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) on FeSe and iron pnictide families of iron-based superconductors, we have studied the orbital nematic order and its interplay with antiferromagnetism within the two-orbital Hubbard model. We used random phase approximation (RPA) to calculate the ...
1408.1408v2
2014-08-27
Tunable Band gap of Iron-Doped Lanthanum-Modified Bismuth Titanate Synthesized by the Thermal Decomposition of a Secondary Phase
The photoelectric properties of complex oxides have prompted interest in materials with a tunable band gap, because the absorption The substitution of iron atoms in La-modified bismuth titanate (BLT) can lead to dramatic improvements in the band gap, however, the substitution of iron atoms in BLT without forming a BiFe...
1408.6294v1
2014-08-28
Persistent detwinning of iron pnictides by small magnetic fields
Our comprehensive study on EuFe$_2$As$_2$ reveals a dramatic reduction of magnetic detwinning fields compared to other AFe$_2$As$_2$ (A = Ba, Sr, Ca) iron pnictides by indirect magneto-elastic coupling of the Eu$^{2+}$ ions. We find that only 0.1T are sufficient for persistent detwinning below the local Eu$^{2+}$ order...
1408.6666v1
2014-09-05
Electronic structure and Fermi surface of iron-based superconductors R2Fe3Si5 (R = Lu;Y;Sc) from first principles
Electronic structures of three superconducting rare-earth iron silicides (Lu;Y;Sc)2Fe3Si5 and non-superconducting Lu2Ru3Si5, adopting a tetragonal crystal structure (P4/mnc), have been calculated employing the full-potential local-orbital method within the density functional theory. The investigations were focused part...
1409.1870v1
2014-09-17
Depth of Maximum of Air-Shower Profiles at the Pierre Auger Observatory: Composition Implications
Using the data taken at the Pierre Auger Observatory between December 2004 and December 2012, we have examined the implications of the distributions of depths of atmospheric shower maximum (Xmax), using a hybrid technique, for composition and hadronic interaction models. We do this by fitting the distributions with pre...
1409.5083v1
2014-09-21
Quantum oscillations and upper critical magnetic field of the iron-based superconductor FeSe
Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations and upper critical magnetic field ($H\_{c2}$) of the iron-based superconductor FeSe ($T\_c$ = 8.6 K) have been studied by tunnel diode oscillator-based measurements in magnetic fields of up to 55 T and temperatures down to 1.6 K. Several Fourier components enter the SdH oscillations...
1409.6003v2
2014-10-03
CuFeAs: A New Member in the 111-Family of Iron-Pnictides
We have synthesized CuFeAs, a new iron-pnictide compound with a layered tetragonal Cu2Sb type structure (space group P4/nmm: a = b = 3.7442(2) {\AA} and c = 5.8925(4) {\AA}) that is identical to that of 111-type iron-based superconductors. Our measurements suggest that in low applied magnetic field it undergoes an anti...
1410.0805v1
2014-10-09
Pair breaking due to orbital magnetism in iron-based superconductors
We consider superconductivity in the presence of impurities in a two-band model suited for the description of iron-based superconductors. We analyze the effect of interband scattering processes on superconductivity, allowing for orbital, i.e., nonspin-magnetic but time-reversal symmetry-breaking impurities. Pair breaki...
1410.2555v2
2014-10-29
Effective Exchange Interactions for Bad Metals and Implications for Iron-based Superconductors
The experimentally observed bad metal behavior in parent iron pnictides and chalcogenides suggests that these systems contain strong electronic correlations and are on the verge of a metal-to-insulator transition. The magnetic excitations in this bad-metal regime mainly derive from the incoherent part of the electronic...
1410.8118v2
2014-10-30
Spin-orbital interplay and topology in the nematic phase of iron pnictides
The origin of the nematic state is an important puzzle to be solved in iron pnictides. Iron superconductors are multiorbital systems and these orbitals play an important role at low energy. The singular $C_4$ symmetry of $d_{zx}$ and $d_{yz}$ orbitals has a profound influence at the Fermi surface since the $\Gamma$ poc...
1410.8488v4
2014-11-26
Electronic and Magnetic Properties of the New Iron -- Based Superconductor [Li$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$OH]FeSe
We present the results of paramagnetic LDA band structure calculations: band dispersions, densities of states and Fermi surfaces, for the new iron based high-temperature superconductor LiOHFeSe. Main structural motif providing bands in the vicinity of the Fermi level is FeSe layer which is isostructural to the bulk FeS...
1411.7194v1
2014-11-27
The critical dynamics of the models of iron-vanadium magnetic superlattice
We report the results of a numerical investigation of static and dynamic critical behavior of the anisotropic easy-plane Heisenberg model which is used as a model for iron-vanadium magnetic superlattices. Models of iron-vanadium magnetic superlattice investigated with different values of intralayer and interlayer excha...
1411.7509v1
2014-12-22
Interplay between tetragonal magnetic order, stripe magnetism, and superconductivity in iron-based materials
Motivated by recent experiments in Ba$_{1-x}$K$_{x}$Fe$_{2}$As$_{2}$ {[}A. E. B\"ohmer \textit{et al}, to be published{]}, we analyze the type of spin-density wave (SDW) order in doped iron-pnictides and the discontinuities of the superconducting transition temperature $T_{c}$ in the coexistence phase with SDW magnetis...
1412.7079v2
2015-01-07
Structure of superoxide reductase bound to ferrocyanide and active site expansion upon X-ray-induced photo-reduction
Some sulfate-reducing and microaerophilic bacteria rely on the enzyme superoxide reductase (SOR) to eliminate the toxic superoxide anion radical (O2*-). SOR catalyses the one-electron reduction of O2*- to hydrogen peroxide at a nonheme ferrous iron center. The structures of Desulfoarculus baarsii SOR (mutant E47A) alon...
1501.01472v1
2015-01-29
Link between local iron coordination, Fe 2p XPS core level line shape and Mg segregation into thin magnetite films grown on MgO(001)
A well ordered Fe(001) ultra thin film epitaxially grown on MgO(001) has been oxidized by post deposition annealing in oxygen atmosphere. LEED patterns indicate the formation of magnetite (Fe$_3$O$_4$) after one hour of oxygen exposure. The LEED pattern remains stable despite annealing the sample for further four hours...
1501.07443v1
2015-02-04
Disordered Fe vacancies and superconductivity in potassium-intercalated iron selenide (K2-xFe4+ySe5)
The parent compound of an unconventional superconductor must contain unusual correlated electronic and magnetic properties of its own. In the high-Tc potassium intercalated FeSe, there has been significant debate regarding what the exact parent compound is. Our studies unambiguously show that the Fe-vacancy ordered K2F...
1502.01116v2
2015-02-09
[NiFe] dithiolene diphosphine complex for hydrogen gas activation: a Theoretic Insight
A diphosphino-nickel-iron dithiolene complex, [Ni(bdt)(dppf)] (bdt = 1,2-benzenedithiolate, dppf = 1,1-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene), has been recently found to be reasonably active on proton reduction to dihydrogen (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 1109). Interestingly, this exceptional complex was found to be also rea...
1502.02706v1
2015-02-18
Theoretical study on the correlation between the spin fluctuation and $T_c$ in the isovalent-doped 1111 iron-based superconductors
Motivated by recent experiments on isovalent-doped 1111 iron-based superconductors LaFeAs$_{1-{x}}$P$_{x}$O$_{1-{y}}$F$_{y}$ and the theoretical study that followed, we investigate, within the five orbital model, the correlation between the spin fluctuation and the superconducting transition temperature, which exhibits...
1502.05144v1
2015-03-07
The Three Dimensional Evolution to Core Collapse of a Massive Star
We present the first three dimensional (3D) simulation of the final minutes of iron core growth in a massive star, up to and including the point of core gravitational instability and collapse. We self-consistently capture the development of strong convection driven by violent Si burning in the shell surrounding the iro...
1503.02199v2
2015-03-13
Magnetic interactions in iron superconductors: A review
High temperature superconductivity in iron pnictides and chalcogenides emerges when a magnetic phase is suppressed. The multi-orbital character and the strength of correlations underlie this complex phenomenology, involving magnetic softness and anisotropies, with Hund's coupling playing an important role. We review he...
1503.04223v2
2015-03-30
Magnon contribution to the magnetoresistance of iron nanowires deposited using pulsed electrodeposition
Iron nanowires with a square cross section are grown by pulsed electrodeposition within a newly developed nanochannel template that allows for easy characterization. Measurements of the magnetoresistance as a function of magnetic field and temperature are performed within a large parameter window allowing for the inves...
1503.08595v1
2015-04-17
Nematic resonance in the Raman response of iron-based superconductors
In a fully-gapped superconductor the electronic Raman response has a pair-breaking peak at twice the superconducting gap $\Delta$, if the Bogoliubov excitations are uncorrelated. Motivated by the iron based superconductors, we study how this peak is modified if the superconducting phase hosts a nematic-structural quant...
1504.04570v2
2015-05-03
The Role of Temperature and Magnetic Effects on the Stacking-fault Energy in Austenitic Iron
We have investigated the role of temperature and magnetic effects on the stacking-fault energy (SFE) in pure austenitic iron based on Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. Using the axial next-nearest-neighbor Ising (ANNNI) model, the SFE is expanded in terms of the free energiesof bulk with face-centered cubic...
1505.00431v2
2015-05-14
Ab initio Studies of Magnetism in the Iron Chalcogenides FeTe and FeSe
The iron chalcogenides FeTe and FeSe belong to the family of iron-based superconductors. We study the magnetism in these compounds in the normal state using the ab initio downfolding scheme developed for strongly correlated electron systems. In deriving ab initio low-energy effective models, we employ the constrained G...
1505.03730v2
2015-07-07
The most iron-deficient stars as the polluted population III stars
We investigate the origin of the most iron-poor stars including SMSS J031300.36-670839.3 with [Fe/H] < -7.52. We compute the change of surface metallicity of stars with the accretion of interstellar matter (ISM) after their birth using the chemical evolution model within the framework of the hierarchical galaxy formati...
1507.01664v1
2015-07-20
Electronic nematic correlations in the stress free tetragonal state of BaFe$_{2-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$
We use transport and neutron scattering to study electronic, structural, and magnetic properties of the electron-doped BaFe$_{2-x}$Ni$_x$As$_2$ iron pnictides in the external stress free detwinned state. Using a specially designed in-situ mechanical detwinning device, we demonstrate that the in-plane resistivity anisot...
1507.05423v1
2015-07-21
Ab initio downfolding study of the iron-based ladder superconductor BaFe$_2$S$_3$
Motivated by the recent discovery of superconductivity in the iron-based ladder compound BaFe$_2$S$_3$ under high pressure, we derive low-energy effective Hamiltonians from first principles. We show that the complex band structure around the Fermi level is represented only by the Fe 3$d_{xz}$ (mixed with 3$d_{xy}$) and...
1507.05715v2
2015-07-22
The Effects of Stoichiometry and Substitution in quasi-one-dimensional iron-chalcogenide BaFe$_{2}$S$_{3}$
The effects of off-stoichiometry and elemental substitution on electronic properties of iron-based ladder compound BaFe$_{2}$S$_{3}$ are investigated. Resistivity and magnetization are revealed to be quite sensitive to the stoichiometry of Fe atoms, and 10 \% deficiency at Fe sites reduces the antiferromagnetic transit...
1507.06047v1
2015-07-29
Constraining planet structure from stellar chemistry: the cases of CoRoT-7, Kepler-10, and Kepler-93
We explore the possibility that the stellar relative abundances of different species can be used to constrain the bulk abundances of known transiting rocky planets. We use high resolution spectra to derive stellar parameters and chemical abundances for Fe, Si, Mg, O, and C in three stars hosting low mass, rocky planets...
1507.08081v1
2015-07-31
Elastic Properties of FeC and FeN Martensites
Single crystal elastic constants of bcc iron and bct FeC and FeN alloys, martensites, have been evaluated by ab initio calculations based on the density functional theory. The energy of a strained crystal has been computed using the supercell method at several values of the strain intensity, and the stiffness coefficie...
1508.00521v1
2015-08-17
Spectroscopic Study of the Envelope of the Hybrid Nova V458 Vul and Surrounding Nebula
Spectroscopic observations of the hybrid V458 Vul obtained between days 9 and 778 after the brightness maximum are analyzed. Short-period, daily profile variations of forbidden [FeVII] iron lines were detected in the nebular phase, as well as a long-period (about 60-day) cyclic variation that was correlated with the ph...
1508.03990v1
2015-11-16
Tracing the $s_\pm$-symmetry in iron pnictides by controlled disorder
Consecutive proton irradiation of iron pnictides reduces the superconducting transition temperature to decrease monotonically. Our systematic optical THz investigations of Ba(Fe$_{0.9}$Co$_{0.1}$)$_2$As$_2$ thin films reveal, however, that the low-energy superconducting gap is first suppressed, but recovers for higher ...
1511.05017v2
2015-11-20
Impact of ordering competition on the global phase diagram of iron pnictides
We consider the impact of the competition among superconductivity, spin density wave, and nematic order in iron pnictides, and show that the ordering competition substantially reshapes the global phase diagram. We perform a detailed renormalization group analysis of an effective field theory of iron pnictides and deriv...
1511.06517v1
2015-11-24
Nodal superconductivity in FeS: Evidence from quasiparticle heat transport
We report low-temperature heat transport measurements on superconducting iron sulfide FeS with $T_c \approx$ 5 K, which has the same crystal structure and similar electronic band structure to the superconducting iron selenide FeSe. In zero magnetic field, a significant residual linear term $\kappa_0/T$ is observed. At ...
1511.07717v3
2016-01-13
Hybrid Crystals of Cuprates and Iron-Based Superconductors
We propose two possible new compounds, Ba$_2$CuO$_2$Fe$_2$As$_2$ and K$_2$CuO$_2$Fe$_2$Se$_2$, which hybridize the building blocks of two high temperature superconductors, cuprates and iron-based superconductors. These compounds consist of square CuO$_2$ layers and antifluorite-type Fe$_2$X$_2$ (X=As,Se) layers separat...
1601.03220v1
2016-01-28
Effects of Pnictogen Atmosphere Annealing in Fe$_{1+y}$Te$_{0.6}$Se$_{0.4}$
It has been clarified that bulk superconductivity in Fe$_{1+y}$Te$_{0.6}$Se$_{0.4}$ can be induced by annealing in an appropriate atmosphere to remove the harmful effects of excess iron. In order to clarify the details of the annealing process, we studied the changes in the physical properties and reaction products of ...
1601.07703v1
2016-02-16
Orbital selectivity of layer resolved tunneling on iron superconductor Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2
We use scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/S) to elucidate the Cooper pairing of the iron pnictide superconductor Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2. By a cold-cleaving technique, we obtain atomically resolved termination surfaces with different layer identities. Remarkably, we observe that the low-energy tunneling spectrum r...
1602.04949v2
2016-02-16
Extreme abundance ratios in the polluted atmosphere of the cool white dwarf NLTT19868
We present an analysis of intermediate-dispersion spectra and photometric data of the newly identified cool, polluted white dwarf NLTT19868. The spectra obtained with X-shooter on the Very Large Telescope (VLT)-Melipal show strong lines of calcium, and several lines of magnesium, aluminium and iron. We use these spectr...
1602.05000v1
2016-02-17
Magnetism, superconductivity, and spontaneous orbital order in iron-based superconductors: who comes first and why?
Magnetism and nematic order are the two non-superconducting orders observed in iron-based superconductors. To elucidate the interplay between them and ultimately unveil the pairing mechanism, several models have been investigated. In models with quenched orbital degrees of freedom, magnetic fluctuations promote stripe ...
1602.05503v1
2016-03-05
Phase transitions in a frustrated biquadratic Heisenberg model with coupled orbital degree of freedom for iron-based superconductors
In this work, we study a biquadratic Heisenberg model with coupled orbital degree of freedom using Monte Carlo simulation in order to investigate the phase transitions in iron-based superconductors. The antiferro-quadrupolar state, which may be related to the magnetism of FeSe [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 116401 (2015)], is ...
1603.01669v1
2016-03-10
Spin and quadrupolar orders in the spin-1 bilinear-biquadratic model for iron-based superconductors
Motivated by recent experimental and theoretical progresses of the magnetic properties of iron-based superconductors, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the spin-1 bilinear-biquadratic (BBQ) model on the square lattice. Using variational approach in the mean-field level, we identify the existence of various magneti...
1603.03273v2
2016-03-14
A study for testing the Kerr metric with AGN iron line eclipses
Recently, two of us have studied iron line reverberation mapping to test black hole candidates, showing that the time information in reverberation mapping can better constrain the Kerr metric than the time-integrated approach. Motivated by this finding, here we explore the constraining power of another time-dependent m...
1603.04115v2
2016-03-15
Testing the Kerr black hole hypothesis: comparison between the gravitational wave and the iron line approaches
The recent announcement of the detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration has opened a new window to test the nature of astrophysical black holes. Konoplya & Zhidenko have shown how the LIGO data of GW 150914 can constrain possible deviations from the Kerr metric. In this letter, we compare their ...
1603.04720v2
2016-04-12
High Temperature Superconductivity in Iron Pnictides and Chalcogenides
Superconductivity develops in metals upon the formation of a coherent macroscopic quantum state of electron pairs. Iron pnictides and chalcogenides are materials that have high superconducting transition temperatures. In this Review, we describe the advances in the field that have led to higher superconducting transiti...
1604.03566v1
2016-04-24
Vanishing Absorption and Blueshifted Emission in FeLoBAL Quasars
We study the dramatic decrease in iron absorption strength in the iron low-ionization broad absorption line quasar SDSS J084133.15+200525.8. We report on the continued weakening of absorption in the prototype of this class of variable broad absorption line quasar, FBQS J140806.2+305448. We also report a third example o...
1604.06977v1
2016-05-09
A global look at X-ray time lags in Seyfert Galaxies
X-ray reverberation, where light-travel time delays map out the compact geometry around the inner accretion flow in supermassive black holes, has been discovered in several of the brightest, most variable and well-known Seyfert galaxies. In this work, we expand the study of X-ray reverberation to all Seyfert galaxies i...
1605.02631v1
2016-05-31
Thermoelectric properties of iron-based superconductors and parent compounds
Herewith, we review the available experimental data of thermoelectric transport properties of iron-based superconductors and parent compounds. We discuss possible physical mechanisms into play in determining the Seebeck effect, from whence one can extract information about Fermi surface reconstruction and Lifshitz tran...
1605.09577v1
2016-06-03
Synthesis, phase stability, structural and physical properties of 11-type iron chalcogenides
This article reviews recent experimental investigations on two binary Fe-chalcogenides: FeSe and Fe$_{1+y}$Te. The main focus is on synthesis, single crystal growth, chemical composition, as well as on the effect of excess iron on structural, magnetic, and transport properties of these materials. The structurally simpl...
1606.01012v1
2016-06-05
Enhanced critical-current in P-doped BaFe2As2 thin films on metal substrates arising from poorly aligned grain boundaries
Thin films of the iron-based superconductor BaFe2(As1-xPx)2 (Ba122:P) were fabricated on polycrystalline metal-tape substrates with two kinds of in-plane grain boundary alignments (well aligned (4 deg.) and poorly aligned (8 deg.)) by pulsed laser deposition. The poorly aligned substrate is not applicable to cuprate-co...
1606.01477v2
2016-07-09
Orientation of the electric field gradient and ellipticity of the magnetic cycloid in multiferroic BiFeO3
The paper deals with the hyperfine interactions observed on the 57Fe nucleus in multiferroic BiFeO3 by means of the 14.41-keV resonant transition in 57Fe, and for transmission geometry applied to the random powder sample. Spectra were obtained at 80 K, 190 K and at room temperature. It was found that iron occurs in the...
1607.02601v3
2016-07-11
An Iron K Component to the Ultrafast Outflow in NGC 1313 X-1
We present the detection of an absorpton feature at $E=8.77^{+0.05}_{-0.06}$ keV in the combined X-ray spectrum of the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 1313 X-1 observed with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, significant at the 3$\sigma$ level. If associated with blueshifted ionized iron, the implied outflow velocity is ~0.2$c$ for...
1607.03124v1
2016-07-19
Relativistic iron lines in accretion disks: the contribution of higher order images in the strong deflection limit
The shapes of relativistic iron lines observed in spectra of candidate black holes carry the signatures of the strong gravitational fields in which the accretion disks lie. These lines result from the sum of the contributions of all images of the disk created by gravitational lensing, with the direct and first-order im...
1607.05365v2
2016-07-19
Spin resonance in the superconducting state of Li$_{1-x}$Fe$_{x}$ODFe$_{1-y}$Se observed by neutron spectroscopy
We have performed inelastic neutron scattering measurements on a powder sample of the superconductor lithium iron selenide hydroxide Li$_{1-x}$Fe$_{x}$ODFe$_{1-y}$Se ($x \simeq 0.16, y \simeq 0.02$, $T_{\rm c} = 41$\,K). The spectrum shows an enhanced intensity below $T_{\rm c}$ over an energy range $0.64\times2\Delta ...
1607.05588v2
2016-07-19
Synthesis of strontium ferrite/iron oxide exchange coupled nano-powders with improved energy product for rare earth free permanent magnet applications
We present a simple, scalable synthesis route for producing exchange coupled soft/hard magnetic composite powder that outperforms pure soft and hard phase constituents. Importantly, the composites is iron oxide based (SrFe12O19 and Fe3O4) and contain no rare earth or precious metal. The two step synthesis process consi...
1607.05689v1
2016-08-11
Collective magnetic excitations of $C_{4}$ symmetric magnetic states in iron-based superconductors
We study the collective magnetic excitations of the recently discovered $C_{4}$ symmetric spin-density wave states of iron-based superconductors with particular emphasis on their orbital character based on an itinerant multiorbital approach. This is important since the $C_{4}$ symmetric spin-density wave states exist o...
1608.03493v1
2016-11-08
Superconductivity and magnetism in Iron Sulfides Intercalated by Metal Hydroxides
Inspired by naturally occurring sulfide minerals, we present a new family of iron-based superconductors. A metastable form of FeS known as the mineral mackinawite forms two-dimensional sheets that can be readily intercalated by various cationic guest species. Under hydrothermal conditions using alkali metal hydroxides,...
1611.02383v2
2016-11-11
Antiferromagnetic order in epitaxial FeSe films on SrTiO3
Single monolayer FeSe film grown on Nb-doped SrTiO$_3$(001) substrate shows the highest superconducting transition temperature (T$_C$ $\sim$ 100 K) among the iron-based superconductors (iron-pnictide), while T$_C$ of bulk FeSe is only $\sim$ 8 K. Antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations were believed to be crucial in iron-p...
1611.03603v2
2016-12-30
Exchange Bias Effects in Iron Oxide-Based Nanoparticle Systems
The exploration of exchange bias (EB) on the nanoscale provides a novel approach to improving the anisotropic properties of magnetic nanoparticles for prospective applications in nanospintronics and nanomedicine. However, the physical origin of EB is not fully understood. Recent advances in chemical synthesis provide a...
1612.09455v1
2017-01-10
Size-dependent frequency bands in the ferromagnetic resonance of a Fe-nanocube
Using full micromagnetic simulations we calculate the spectra of ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) for an iron (core-shell) nanocube and show that the FMR characteristics are strongly size dependent. For instance, for a $40~$nm it is found that, in contrast to a macrospin picture, the spectrum of the iron nanocube possesse...
1701.02503v1
2017-02-08
Magnetic Lifshitz transition and its consequences in multi-band iron-based superconductors
In this paper we address Lifshitz transition induced by applied external magnetic field in a case of iron-based superconductors, in which a difference between the Fermi level and the edges of the bands is relatively small. We introduce and investigate a two-band model with intra-band pairing in the relevant parameters ...
1702.02612v1
2017-03-13
Various arsenic network structures in 112-type Ca1-xLaxFe1-yPdyAs2 revealed by synchrotron x-ray diffraction experiments
Two novel 112-type palladium doped iron arsenides were synthesized and identified using comprehensive studies involving synchrotron x-ray diffraction and x-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) experiments. Whereas in-plane arsenic zigzag chains were found in 112-type superconducting iron arsenide, Ca1-xLaxFeAs2 w...
1703.04204v1
2017-04-07
Spin wave propagation and spin polarized electron transport in single crystal iron films
The technique of propagating spin wave spectroscopy is applied to a 20 nm thick Fe/MgO (001) film. The magnetic parameters extracted from the position of the resonance peaks are very close to those tabulated for bulk iron. From the propagating waveforms, a group velocity of 4 km/s and an attenuation length of about 6 m...
1704.02217v1
2017-04-11
Possible Bicollinear Nematic State with Monoclinic Lattice Distortions in Iron Telluride Compounds
Iron telluride FeTe is known to display bicollinear magnetic order at low temperatures together with a monoclinic lattice distortion. Because the bicollinear order can involve two different wavevectors $(\pi/2,\pi/2)$ and $(\pi/2,-\pi/2)$, symmetry considerations allow for the possible stabilization of a nematic state ...
1704.03495v2
2017-04-28
Strong anisotropy effect in iron-based superconductor CaFe$_{0.882}$Co$_{0.118}$AsF
The anisotropy of the Fe-based superconductors is much smaller than that of the cuprates and the theoretical calculations. A credible understanding for this experimental fact is still lacking up to now. Here we experimentally study the magnetic-field-angle dependence of electronic resistivity in the superconducting pha...
1704.08791v1
2017-05-31
Crystal growth and phase diagram of 112-type iron pnictide superconductor Ca1-yLayFe1-xNixAs2
We report a systematic crystal growth and characterization of Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$, the newly discovered 112-type iron-based superconductor. After substituting Fe by a small amount of Ni, bulk superconductivity is successfully obtained in high quality single crystals sized up to 6 mm. Resistivit...
1705.11144v1
2017-06-06
Detailed opacity calculations for astrophysical applications
Nowadays, several opacity codes are able to provide data for stellar structure models, but the computed opacities may show significant differences. In this work, we present state-of-the-art precise spectral opacity calculations, illustrated by stellar applications. The essential role of laboratory experiments to check ...
1706.01761v1
2017-06-10
Local orthorhombicity in the magnetic $C_4$ phase of the hole-doped iron-arsenide superconductor Sr$_{1-x}$Na$_{x}$Fe$_2$As$_2$
We report temperature-dependent pair distribution function measurements of Sr$_{1-x}$Na$_{x}$Fe$_2$As$_2$, an iron-based superconductor system that contains a magnetic phase with reentrant tetragonal symmetry, known as the magnetic $C_4$ phase. Quantitative refinements indicate that the instantaneous local structure in...
1706.03279v2
2017-06-16
Observation of topological superconductivity on the surface of an iron-based superconductor
Topological superconductors, whose edge hosts Majorana bound states or Majorana fermions that obey non-Abelian statistics, can be used for low-decoherence quantum computations. Most of the proposed topological superconductors are realized with spin-helical states through proximity effect to BCS superconductors. However...
1706.05163v2
2017-06-23
Dynamic Simulation of Structural Phase Transitions in Magnetic Iron
The occurrence of bcc-fcc ($\alpha$-$\gamma$) and fcc-bcc ($\gamma$-$\delta$) phase transitions in magnetic iron stems from the interplay between magnetic excitations and lattice vibrations. However, this fact has never been proven by a direct dynamic simulation, treating non-collinear magnetic fluctuations and dynamic...
1706.07635v1
2017-07-12
Local magnetic moments in iron and nickel at ambient and Earth's core conditions
Some Bravais lattices have a particular geometry that can slow down the motion of Bloch electrons by pre-localization due to the band-structure properties. Another known source of electronic localization in solids is the Coulomb repulsion in partially filled d- or f-orbitals, which leads to the formation of local magne...
1707.03789v1
2017-07-19
On local sensing of spin Hall effect in tungsten films by using STM-based measurements
The spin Hall effect in tungsten films has been experimentally studied by using STM-based measurements. These measurements have been performed by using tungsten and iron coated tungsten tips. In the case of tungsten tips, it has been observed that the current flow through the tungsten film results in an appreciable asy...
1707.06116v2
2017-09-18
Magnetism and superconductivity in the layered hexagonal transition metal pnictides
We investigate the electronic and magnetic structures of the 122 (AM$_2$B$_2$) hexagonal transition-metal pnictides with A=(Sr, Ca), M=(Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) and B=(As, P, Sb). It is found that the family of materials share critical similarities with those of tetragonal structures that include the famous iron-based high ...
1709.05736v1