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2011-02-09
Iron vacancy superstructure and possible room temperature antiferromagnetic order in superconducting Cs_{y}Fe_{2-x}Se_2
Neutron and x-ray powder and single crystal synchrotron diffraction of CsyFe2-xSe2 show the presence of superstructure reflections with propagation vector k=[2/5, 1/5, 1] with respect to the average crystal structure I4/mmm (a = 4, c = 15A). The propagation vector star corresponds to the 5 times bigger unit cell given ...
1102.1919v2
2011-02-11
Quasiparticle states around a nonmagnetic impurity in electron-doped iron-based superconductors with spin-density-wave order
The quasiparticle states around a nonmagnetic impurity in electron-doped iron-based superconductors with spin-density-wave (SDW) order are investigated as a function of doping and impurity scattering strength. In the undoped sample, where a pure SDW state exists, two impurity-induced resonance peaks are observed around...
1102.2401v1
2011-02-16
Room temperature antiferromagnetic order in superconducting X_yFe_{2-x}Se_ 2, (X= Rb, K): a powder neutron diffraction study
Magnetic and crystal structures of superconducting X yFe 2-xSe 2 (X= Rb and K with Tc=31.5 K and 29.5 K) have been studied by neutron powder diffraction at room temperature. Both crystals show ordered iron vacancy pattern and the crystal structure is well described in the I4/m space group with the lattice constants a=8...
1102.3380v1
2011-03-05
Orbital magnetic response and the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility in the Iron-based superconductors
We propose that the orbital angular momentum of the conduction electrons in the Iron-based superconductors is activated in their low energy physics. Using a five-band tight-binding model derived from fitting the LDA band structure, we find that the orbital magnetic susceptibility of the conduction electrons in such a m...
1103.1056v2
2011-03-10
Weighing Super-Massive Black Holes with Narrow Fe K$α$ Line
It has been suggested that the narrow cores of the Fe K$\alpha$ emission lines in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are likely produced in the torus, the inner radius of which can be measured by observing the lag time between the $V$ and $K$ band flux variations. In this paper we compare the virial products of the infrared...
1103.1927v2
2011-03-14
AGN feedback and iron enrichment in the powerful radio galaxy, 4C+55.16
We present a detailed X-ray analysis of 4C+55.16, an unusual and interesting radio galaxy, located at the centre of a cool core cluster of galaxies. 4C+55.16 is X-ray bright (L(cluster)~10^45 erg/s), radio powerful, and shows clear signs of interaction with the surrounding intracluster medium. By combining deep Chandra...
1103.2585v2
2011-03-16
Superconductivity at the Border of Electron Localization and Itinerancy
The superconducting state of iron pnictides and chalcogenides exists at the border of antiferromagnetic order. Consequently, these materials could provide clues about the relationship between magnetism and unconventional superconductivity. One explanation, motivated by the so-called bad-metal behaviour of these materia...
1103.3259v2
2011-03-17
Origin of Orthorhombic Transition, Magnetic Transition, and Shear Modulus Softening in Iron Pnictide Superconductors: Analysis based on the Orbital Fluctuation Theory
The main features in iron-pnictide superconductors are summarized as (i) the orthorhombic transition accompanied by remarkable softening of shear modulus, (ii) high-Tc superconductivity close to the orthorhombic phase, and (iii) stripe-type magnetic order induced by orthorhombicity. To present a unified explanation for...
1103.3360v3
2011-03-25
Unconventional temperature enhanced magnetism in iron telluride
Highly energetic magnetic fluctuations, discovered in high-temperature superconductors (HTSC) by inelastic neutron scattering (INS), are now widely believed to be vital for the superconductivity. In two competing scenarios, they either originate from local atomic spins, or are a property of cooperative spin-density-wav...
1103.5073v1
2011-04-12
Isotropic three-dimensional gap in the iron-arsenide superconductor LiFeAs from directional heat transport measurements
The thermal conductivity k of the iron-arsenide superconductor LiFeAs (Tc ~ 18K) was measured in single crystals at temperatures down to T~50mK and in magnetic fields up to H=17T, very close to the upper critical field Hc2~18T. For both directions of the heat current, parallel and perpendicular to the tetragonal c-axis...
1104.2209v2
2011-05-06
Effect of iron content and potassium substitution in A$_{0.8}$Fe$_{1.6}$Se$_2$ (A = K, Rb, Tl) superconductors: a Raman-scattering investigation
We have performed Raman-scattering measurements on high-quality single crystals of the superconductors K$_{0.8}$Fe$_{1.6}$Se$_2$ ($T_c$ = 32 K), Tl$_{0.5}$K$_{0.3}$Fe$_{1.6}$Se$_2$ ($T_c$ = 29 K), and Tl$_{0.5}$Rb$_{0.3}$Fe$_{1.6}$Se$_2$ ($T_c$ = 31 K), as well as of the insulating compound KFe$_{1.5}$Se$_2$. To interp...
1105.1198v2
2011-05-10
Magnetic-crystallographic phase diagram of superconducting parent compound Fe$_{1+x}$Te
hrough neutron diffraction experiments, including spin-polarized measurements, we find a collinear incommensurate spin-density wave with propagation vector $ \mathbf k = $ ($0.4481(4) \, \,0 \, \, \frac1 2$) at base temperature in the superconducting parent compound Fe$_{1+x}$Te. This critical concentration of intersti...
1105.1937v1
2011-05-20
Orbital-Selective Superconductivity and the Effect of Lattice Distortion in Iron-Based Superconductors
The superconducting (SC) state of iron-based compounds in both tetragonal and orthorhombic phases is studied on the basis of an effective Hamiltonian composed of the kinetic energy including the five Fe 3d-orbitals, the orthorhombic crystalline electric field (CEF) energy, and the two-orbital Kugel'-Khomski\u{i}-type s...
1105.4028v1
2011-06-10
Electron doped Ca10(Pt3As8)(Fe2As2)5 and Ca10(Pt4As8)(Fe2As2)5 - High Tc superconductors with skutterudite intermediary layers
It has been argued that the very high transition temperatures of the highest Tc cuprate superconductors are facilitated by enhanced CuO2 plane coupling through the (Bi,Tl,Hg)-O intermediary layers. Whether enhanced coupling through intermediary layers can also influence Tc in the iron arsenide superconductors has never...
1106.2111v1
2011-06-12
Upper critical field and thermally activated flux flow in single crystalline Tl$_{0.58}$Rb$_{0.42}$Fe$_{1.72}$Se$_2$
The upper critical field $\mu_0H_{c2}(T_c)$ of Tl$_{0.58}$Rb$_{0.42}$Fe$_{1.72}$Se$_2$ single crystals has been determined by means of measuring the electrical resistivity in both a pulsed magnetic field ($\sim$60T) and a DC magnetic field ($\sim$14T). It is found that $H_{c2}$ linearly increases with decreasing temper...
1106.2283v2
2011-06-16
Modulated superconductivity due to vacancy and magnetic order in $A_x$Fe$_{2-x/2}$Se$_2$ [$A=$Cs, K, (Tl,Rb), (Tl,K)] iron-selenide superconductors
We present a calculation of a 'modulated' superconducting state in iron-selenide superconductors. The zero-momentum $d-$wave pairing breaks the translational symmetry of the conventional BaFe$_2$Se$_2$-like crystal of $I4/mmm$ space group. This pairing state becomes compatible when the Fe vacancies form an ordered stat...
1106.3289v1
2011-07-04
Comparative studies of the scanning tunneling spectra in cuprate and iron-arsenide superconductors
We report scanning tunneling spectroscopic studies of cuprate and iron-arsenic superconductors, including YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-\delta} (Y-123, T_c = 93 K), Sr_{0.9}La_{0.1}CuO_2 (La-112, T_c = 43 K), and the "122" compounds Ba(Fe_{1-x}Co_x)_2As_2 (Co-122 with x = 0.06, 0.08, 0.12 for T_c = 14, 24, 20 K). For H > 0, pseudogap ...
1107.0697v1
2011-08-19
Structure and magnetic properties of nanostructured Pd-Fe thin films produced by pulse electrodeposition
Nanostructured Pd-Fe thin films with varied Fe content were prepared by electrodeposition technique from organic electrolytes on Cu and brass substrates. The structure and the magnetic properties of the films were investigated prior to post-deposition annealing. The structure of the Pd1-xFex thin films with x = 0.14, 0...
1108.3888v1
2011-09-07
Solar Cycle Variations in the Elemental Abundance of Helium and Fractionation of Iron in the Fast Solar Wind - Indicators of an Evolving Energetic Release of Mass from the Lower Solar Atmosphere
We present and discuss the strong correspondence between evolution of the emission length scale in the lower transition region and in situ measurements of the fast solar wind composition during this most recent solar minimum. We combine recent analyses demonstrating the variance in the (supergranular) network emission ...
1109.1408v1
2011-09-22
Self-Diffusion of Iron in L10 FePd films Upon He-irradiation (alternative title: An alternative for diffusion studies in isotopic FePd multilayers)
The continuous need towards improving the capacity of magnetic storage devices requires materials with strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. FePd, CoPd and their Co(Fe)Pt counterparts very attractive candidate for such purposes. The magnetic properties of these films are largely dependent on the orientation and loc...
1109.4742v1
2011-10-26
Non-Fermi Liquid due to Orbital Fluctuations in Iron Pnictide Superconductors
We study the influence of quantum fluctuations on the electron self energy in the normal state of iron-pnictide superconductors using a five orbital tight binding model with generalized Hubbard on-site interactions. Within a one-loop treatment, we find that an overdamped collective mode develops at low frequency in cha...
1110.5917v4
2011-10-27
Analysing the Suzaku Spectra of the Broad-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy CBS 126
We analysed new simultaneous \emph{Suzaku} and \emph{Swift} data of the Broad Line Seyfert 1 (BLS1) galaxy CBS 126. A clear Fe emission line and a strong soft excess are present in the source spectra. We fit the spectra with a relativistic reflection model and find the model tends to fit the data with a high iron abund...
1110.6047v2
2011-12-01
Observational studies of Cepheid amplitudes. II Metallicity dependence of pulsation amplitudes
Physical and phenomenological properties (radius, luminosity, shape of the light curve, etc.) of Cepheids strongly depend on the pulsation period, with the exception of the pulsation amplitude. A possible factor causing a wide range of pulsation amplitudes might be the different atmospheric metallicities of individual ...
1112.0115v1
2012-01-25
Newly-born pulsars as sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays
Newly-born pulsars offer favorable sites for the injection of heavy nuclei, and for their further acceleration to ultrahigh energies. Once accelerated in the pulsar wind, nuclei have to escape from the surrounding supernova envelope. We examine this escape analytically and numerically, and discuss the pulsar source sce...
1201.5197v1
2012-02-28
U(1) Slave-spin theory and its application to Mott transition in a multi-orbital model for iron pnictides
A U(1) slave-spin representation is introduced for multi-orbital Hubbard models. As with the $Z_2$ form of L. de'Medici et al. (Phys. Rev. B 72, 205124 (2005)), this approach represents a physical electron operator as the product of a slave spin and an auxiliary fermion operator. For non-degenerate multi-orbital models...
1202.6115v1
2012-02-29
The s-process nucleosynthesis in massive stars: current status and uncertainties due to convective overshooting
Context: It is well known that the so-called s-process is responsible for the production of neutron-rich trans-iron elements, that form the bulk of the "heavy nuclides" (i.e. nuclides more massive than the iron-group nuclei) in the solar-system composition, considered as "standard of reference" dataset for cosmic abund...
1202.6577v2
2012-03-20
Orbital fluctuation theory in iron-based superconductors: s-wave superconductivity, structure transition, and impurity-induced nematic order
The main features in iron-based superconductors would be (i) the orthorhombic transition accompanied by remarkable softening of shear modulus, (ii) high-Tc superconductivity close to the orthorhombic phase, and (iii) nematic transition in the tetragonal phase. In this paper, we present a unified explanation for them, b...
1203.4602v2
2012-03-22
Magnetic hour-glass dispersion and its relation to high-temperature superconductivity in iron-tuned Fe$_{1+y}$Te$_{0.7}$Se$_{0.3}$
High-temperature superconductivity remains arguably the largest outstanding enigma of condensed matter physics. The discovery of iron-based high-temperature superconductors has renewed the importance of understanding superconductivity in materials susceptible to magnetic order and fluctuations. Intriguingly they show m...
1203.4974v2
2012-03-28
Geometric and disorder -- type magnetic frustration in ferrimagnetic "114" Ferrites: Role of diamagnetic Li+ and Zn2+ cation substitution
The comparative study of the substitution of zinc and lithium for iron in the "114" ferrites, YBaFe4O7 and CaBaFe4O7, shows that these diamagnetic cations play a major role in tuning the competition between ferrimagnetism and magnetic frustration in these oxides. The substitution of Li or Zn for Fe in the cubic phase Y...
1203.6220v1
2012-04-17
Manifestations of nematic degrees of freedom in the magnetic, elastic, and superconducting properties of the iron pnictides
We investigate how emergent nematic order and nematic fluctuations affect several macroscopic properties of both the normal and superconducting states of the iron pnictides. Due to its magnetic origin, long-range nematic order enhances magnetic fluctuations, leaving distinctive signatures in the spin-lattice relaxation...
1204.3694v3
2012-04-19
Evolution from unconventional spin density wave to superconductivity and a novel gap-like phase in NaFe1-xCoxAs
Similar to the cuprate high TC superconductors, the iron pnictide superconductors also lie in close proximity to a magnetically ordered phase. A central debate concerning the superconducting mechanism is whether the local magnetic moments play an indispensable role or the itinerant electron description is sufficient. A...
1204.4237v1
2012-04-25
Fermi surface evolution and checker-board block-spin antiferromagnetism in $A_x$Fe$_{2-y}$Se$_{2}$
We develop an effective multiorbital mean-field t-J Hamiltonian with realistic tight-binding and exchange parameters to describe the electronic and magnetic structures of iron-selenide based superconductors $A_x$Fe$_{2-y}$Se$_2$ for iron vacancy doping in the range $0 \leq y \leq 0.4$. The Fermi surface topology extrac...
1204.5768v1
2012-05-01
Shielding Experiments Under JASMIN Collaboration at Fermilab(III) - Measurement of High-Energy Neutrons Penetrating a Thick Iron Shield from the Antiproton Production Target by AU Activation Method
In an antiproton production (Pbar) target station of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), the secondary particles produced by bombarding a target with 120-GeV protons are shielded by a thick iron shield. In order to obtain experimental data on high-energy neutron transport at more than 100-GeV-proton accel...
1205.0265v1
2012-05-15
Magnetic States of the Two-Leg Ladder Alkali Metal Iron Selenides $A$Fe$_2$Se$_3$
Recent neutron scattering experiments addressing the magnetic state of the two-leg ladder selenide compound BaFe$_2$Se$_3$ have unveiled a dominant spin arrangement involving ferromagnetically ordered 2$\times$2 iron-superblocks, that are antiferromagnetically coupled among them (the "block-AFM" state). Using the elect...
1205.3239v3
2012-06-06
The role of oxygen vacancies on the structure and the density of states of iron doped zirconia
In this paper we study, both with theoretical and experimental approach, the effect of iron doping in zirconia. Combining density functional theory (DFT) simulations with the experimental characterization of thin films, we show that iron is in the Fe3+ oxidation state and accordingly that the films are rich in oxygen v...
1206.1197v4
2012-06-07
Effect of inelastic scattering on the nuclear magnetic relaxation rate 1/T1T in iron-based superconductors
We present a microscopic study of the nuclear magnetic relaxation rate 1/T1 based on the five-orbital model for iron-based superconductors. We mainly discuss the effect of the "inelastic" quasi-particle damping rate {\gamma} due to many-body interaction on the size of the coherence peak, for both s++ and s+- wave super...
1206.1399v2
2012-06-11
Metastable superconducting state in quenched KxFe2-ySe2
By direct quenching or post-annealing followed by quenching, we have successfully obtained a series of KxFe2-ySe2 samples with different properties. It is found that the samples directly quenched in the cooling process of growth show superconductivity and the one cooled with furnace is insulating even though their stoi...
1206.2191v1
2012-08-08
Composition Structure of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections From Multispacecraft Observations, Modeling, and Comparison with Numerical Simulations
We present an analysis of the ionic composition of iron for two interplanetary coronal mass ejections observed in May 21-23 2007 by the ACE and STEREO spacecraft in the context of the magnetic structure of the ejecta flux rope, sheath region, and surrounding solar wind flow. This analysis is made possible due to recent...
1208.1791v3
2012-08-31
Radiative properties of magnetic neutron stars with metallic surfaces and thin atmospheres
The goal of this work is to develop a simple analytic description of the emission properties (spectrum and polarization) of the condensed, strongly magnetized surface of neutron stars. We have improved the method of van Adelsberg et al. (2005) (arXiv:astro-ph/0406001) for calculating the spectral properties of condense...
1208.6582v2
2012-09-18
Active galaxy 4U 1344-60: did the relativistic line disappear?
X-ray bright active galactic nuclei represent a unique astrophysical laboratory for studying accretion physics around super-massive black holes. 4U 1344-60 is a bright Seyfert galaxy which revealed relativistic reflection features in the archival XMM-Newton observation. We present the spectroscopic results of new data ...
1209.4068v1
2012-10-05
Rapid Size-Controlled Synthesis of Dextran-Coated, 64Cu-Doped Iron Oxide Nanoparticles
Research into developing dual modality probes enabled for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) has been on the rise recently due to the potential to combine the high resolution of MRI and the high sensitivity of PET. Current synthesis techniques for developing multimodal probes is lar...
1210.1823v1
2012-10-18
Specific Heat vs Field of LiFe1-xCuxAs
LiFeAs is one of the new class of iron superconductors with a bulk onset Tc in the 15-17 K range. We report on the specific heat characterization of single crystal material prepared from self-flux growth techniques with significantly improved properties, including a much decreased residual gamma (proportional to C/T as...
1210.4995v1
2012-11-12
Testing the space-time geometry around black hole candidates with the analysis of the broad K$α$ iron line
Astrophysical black hole candidates are thought to be the Kerr black holes predicted by General Relativity, but there is not yet clear evidence that the geometry of the space-time around these objects is really described by the Kerr metric. In order to confirm the Kerr black hole hypothesis, we have to observe strong g...
1211.2513v2
2012-12-19
Emergent Nesting of the Fermi Surface from Local-Moment Description of Iron-Pnictide High-Tc Superconductors
We uncover the low-energy spectrum of a t-J model for electrons on a square lattice of spin-1 iron atoms with 3dxz and 3dyz orbital character by applying Schwinger-boson-slave-fermion mean-field theory and by exact diagonalization of one hole roaming over a 4 x 4 x 2 lattice. Hopping matrix elements are set to produce ...
1212.4619v3
2012-12-20
Measurement of Coherent Polarons in the Strongly Coupled Antiferromagnetically Ordered Iron-Chalcogenide Fe1.02Te using Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
The nature of metallicity and the level of electronic correlations in the antiferromagnetically ordered parent compounds are two important open issues for the iron-based superconductivity. We perform a temperature-dependent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study of Fe1.02Te, the parent compound for iron chalco...
1212.4946v1
2013-03-02
Signs of atmospheric inhomogeneities in cool stars from 1D-NLTE analysis of iron lines
For the well studied halo star HD 122563 and the four stars in the globular cluster NGC 6397, we determine NLTE abundances of iron using classical plane-parallel model atmospheres. Each star reveals a discrepancy in abundances between the Fe I lines arising from the ground state and the other Fe I lines, in qualitative...
1303.0357v1
2013-03-04
Orbital selective correlations between nesting/scattering/Lifshitz transition and the superconductivity in AFe1-xCoxAs (A=Li, Na)
The correlations between the superconductivity in iron pnictides and their electronic structures are elusive and controversial so far. Here through angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements, we show that such correlations are rather distinct in AFe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$As (A=Li, Na), but only after one realizes th...
1303.0682v2
2013-03-11
Magnetically-Driven Suppression of Nematic Order in an Iron-Based Superconductor
A theory of superconductivity in the iron-based materials requires an understanding of the phase diagram of the normal state. In these compounds, superconductivity emerges when stripe spin density wave (SDW) order is suppressed by doping, pressure or atomic disorder. This magnetic order is often pre-empted by nematic o...
1303.2647v2
2013-03-12
Change of pairing symmetry in the iron-based superconductor KFe2As2
The pairing mechanism in iron-based superconductors is the subject of ongoing debate. Proximity to an antiferromagnetic phase suggests that pairing is mediated by spin fluctuations, but orbital fluctuations have also been invoked. The former typically favour a pairing state of extended s-wave symmetry with a gap that c...
1303.2961v3
2013-04-11
Sign-reversal of the in-plane resistivity anisotropy in iron pnictides
The concept of an electronically-driven breaking of the rotational symmetry of a crystal, without involving magnetic order, has found experimental support in several systems, from semiconductor heterostructures and ruthenates, to cuprate and iron-pnictide superconductors. In the pnictide BaFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$, such an "el...
1304.3490v1
2013-04-12
Space group symmetry, spin-orbit coupling and the low energy effective Hamiltonian for iron based superconductors
We construct the symmetry adapted low energy effective Hamiltonian for the electronic states in the vicinity of the Fermi level in iron based superconductors. We use Luttinger's method of invariants, expanding about Gamma and M points in the Brillouin zone corresponding to two iron unit cell, and then matching the coef...
1304.3723v1
2013-05-23
Measuring the Kerr spin parameter of a non-Kerr compact object with the continuum-fitting and the iron line methods
Under the assumption that astrophysical black hole candidates are the Kerr black holes of general relativity, the continuum-fitting method and the analysis of the K$\alpha$ iron line are today the only available techniques capable of providing a relatively reliable estimate of the spin parameter of these objects. If we...
1305.5409v2
2013-06-05
BeppoSAX and XMM-Newton spectral study of 4U 1735-44
Low-mass X-ray binary systems consist of a neutron star and a main-sequence companion star. The compact object accretes matter via Roche-lobe overflow, which leads to an accretion disk. In addition to a broad-band continuum emission of a thermal component and a Comptonization part, evidence for a broad iron K{\alpha} l...
1306.1040v1
2013-06-22
A Toroidal Magnetised Iron Neutrino Detector (MIND) for a Neutrino Factory
A neutrino factory has unparalleled physics reach for the discovery and measurement of CP violation in the neutrino sector. A far detector for a neutrino factory must have good charge identification with excellent background rejection and a large mass. An elegant solution is to construct a magnetized iron neutrino dete...
1306.5327v2
2013-07-18
Steady state rheological behaviour of multi-component magnetic suspensions
In this paper we study the rheological behaviour (in the absence of magnetic field and upon its application) of multi-component magnetic suspensions that consist of a mixture of magnetic (iron) and non-magnetic (PMMA) particles dispersed in a liquid carrier. These suspensions exhibit considerably higher viscosity and y...
1307.4975v1
2013-08-05
Physics picture from neutron scattering study on Fe-based superconductors
Neutron scattering, with its ability to measure the crystal structure, the magnetic order, and the structural and magnetic excitations, plays an active role in investigating various families of Fe-based high-Tc superconductors. Three different types of antiferromag- netic orders have been discovered in the Fe plane, bu...
1308.1040v1
2013-08-28
Strong electronic correlations in iron pnictides: Comparison of the optical spectra for BaFe2As2-related compounds
We carried out combined transport and optical measurements for BaFe2As2 and five isostructural transition-metal (TM) pnictides. The low-energy optical conductivity spectra of these compounds are, to a good approximation, decomposed into a narrow Drude (coherent) component and an incoherent component. The iron arsenides...
1308.6113v1
2013-09-06
Investigation of the Puzzling Abundance Pattern in the Stars of the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
Many works have found unusual characteristics of elemental abundances in nearby dwarf galaxies. This implies that there is a key factor of galactic evolution that is different from that of the Milky Way (MW). The chemical abundances of the stars in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Fornax dSph) provide excellent info...
1309.1519v1
2013-10-04
The soft component and the iron line as signatures of the disc inner radius in Galactic black hole binaries
The inner radius of the accretion disc around a black hole in the low/hard state can be measured in one of two ways. Firstly, via the extent of broadening of the iron emission line, and secondly, from the luminosity and temperature of the weak soft component seen in this state, assuming it is the disc. We use both of t...
1310.1219v1
2013-11-14
Electric field gradient wave (EFGW) in iron-based superconductor Ba(0.6)K(0.4)Fe2As2 studied by Mössbauer spectroscopy
The optimally doped 122 iron-based superconductor Ba(0.6)K(0.4)Fe2As2 has been studied by 57Fe Moessbauer spectroscopy versus temperature ranging from 4.2 K till 300 K with particular attention paid to the superconducting transition around 38 K. The spectra do not contain magnetic components and they exhibit quasi-cont...
1311.3503v4
2013-11-22
A first-principles study of the electronic structure of Iron-Selenium; Implications for electron-phonon superconductivity
We have performed density functional theory (DFT) calculations using the linearized augmented plane wave method (LAPW) with the local density approximation (LDA) functional to study the electronic structure of the iron-based superconductor Iron-Selenium (FeSe). In our study, we have performed a comprehensive set of cal...
1311.5914v2
2014-02-04
Spin and orbital magnetic moments of size-selected iron, cobalt, and nickel clusters and their link to the bulk phase diagrams
Spin and orbital magnetic moments of cationic iron, cobalt, and nickel clusters have been determined from x-ray magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy. In the size regime of $n = 10 - 15$ atoms, these clusters show strong ferromagnetism with maximized spin magnetic moments of 1~$\mu_B$ per empty $3d$ state because of...
1402.0701v1
2014-02-07
Modelling a new, low CO2 emissions, hydrogen steelmaking process
In an effort to develop breakthrough technologies that enable drastic reduction in CO2 emissions from steel industry (ULCOS project), the reduction of iron ore by pure hydrogen in a direct reduction shaft furnace was investigated. After experimental and modelling studies, a 2D, axisymmetrical steady-state model called ...
1402.1715v1
2014-02-15
Identifying the `Fingerprint' of Antiferromagnetic Spin-Fluctuations on Iron-Pnictide Superconductivity
Cooper pairing in the iron-based high-Tc superconductors is often conjectured to involve bosonic fluctuations. Among the candidates are antiferromagnetic spin-fluctuations and d-orbital fluctuations amplified by phonons. Any such electron-boson interaction should alter the electron's `self-energy', and then become dete...
1402.3714v2
2014-02-17
Pressure decoupled magnetic and structural transitions of the parent compound of iron based 122 superconductors BaFe2As2
The recent discovery of iron ferropnictide superconductors has received intensive concerns on magnetic involved superconductors. Prominent features of ferropnictide superconductors are becoming apparent: the parent compounds exhibit antiferromagnetic (AFM) ordered spin density wave (SDW) state; the magnetic phase trans...
1402.4086v1
2014-03-05
The chemical composition of a regular halo globular cluster: NGC 5897
We report for the first time on the chemical composition of the halo cluster NGC 5897 (R=12.5 kpc), based on chemical abundance ratios for 27 alpha-, iron-peak, and neutron-capture elements in seven red giants. From our high-resolution, high signal-to-noise spectra obtained with the Magellan/MIKE spectrograph, we find ...
1403.1262v1
2014-03-14
Spin-dependent conductivity of iron-based superconductors in a magnetic field
We report the results of a study of magnetic field features of electron transport in heterojunctions with NS boundary inside iron-based superconductors, represented by a binary phase of $\alpha$ - FeSe and oxyarsenide pnictide LaO(F)FeAs. We used the ability of self magnetic field of the transport current to partially ...
1403.3549v1
2014-03-24
Bipartite magnetic parent phases in the iron-oxypnictide superconductor
High-temperature (high-$T_{\rm c}$) superconductivity appears as a consequence of the carrier-doping of an undoped parent compound exhibiting antiferromagnetic order; thereby, ground-state properties of the parent compound are closely relevant to the superconducting state. On the basis of the concept, a spin-fluctuatio...
1403.6021v1
2014-04-01
Magnetic states of the five-orbital Hubbard model for one-dimensional iron-based superconductors
The magnetic phase diagrams of models for quasi one-dimensional compounds belonging to the iron-based superconductors family are presented. The five-orbital Hubbard model and the real-space Hartree-Fock approximation are employed, supplemented by density functional theory to obtain the hopping amplitudes. Phase diagram...
1404.0069v1
2014-04-01
High-resolution abundance analysis of very metal-poor r-I stars
Moderately r-process-enriched stars (r-I) are at least four times as common as those that are greatly enriched in r-process elements (r-II), and the abundances in their atmospheres are important tools for obtaining a better understanding of the nucleosynthesis processes responsible for the origin of the elements beyond...
1404.0234v1
2014-04-03
Dynamics and mechanism of oxygen annealing in Fe$_{1+y}$Te$_{0.6}$Se$_{0.4}$ single crystal
Iron chalcogenide Fe(Te,Se) attracted much attention due to its simple structure, which is favorable for probing the superconducting mechanism. Its less toxic nature compared with iron arsenides is also advantageous for applications of iron-based superconductors. By intercalating spacer layers, superconducting transiti...
1404.0916v1
2014-04-10
Space weathering simulations through controlled growth of iron nanoparticles on olivine
Airless planetary bodies are directly exposed to space weathering. The main spectral effects of space weathering are darkening, reduction in intensity of silicate mineral absorption bands, and an increase in the spectral slope towards longer wavelengths (reddening). Production of nanophase metallic iron (npFe$^{0}$) du...
1404.2956v2
2014-07-02
Connection between ambient-pressure and pressure-induced superconducting phases in alkaline iron selenide superconductors
A unique platform for investigating the correlation between the antiferromagnetic (AFM) and superconducting (SC) states in high temperature superconductors is created by the discovery of alkaline iron selenide superconductors which are composed of an AFM insulating phase and a SC phase separated spatially. Our previous...
1407.0589v2
2014-07-24
Preventing corona effects: multi-phosphonic acid poly(ethylene glycol) copolymers for stable stealth iron oxide nanoparticles
When disperse in biological fluids, engineered nanoparticles are selectively coated with proteins, resulting in the formation of a protein corona. It is suggested that the protein corona is critical in regulating the conditions of entry into the cytoplasm of living cells. Recent reports describe this phenomenon as ubiq...
1407.6411v1
2014-08-05
Two spatially separated phases in semiconducting Rb$_{0.8}$Fe$_{1.5}$S$_2$
We report neutron scattering and transport measurements on semiconducting Rb$_{0.8}$Fe$_{1.5}$S$_2$, a compound isostructural and isoelectronic to the well-studied $A_{0.8}$Fe$_{y}$Se$_2 (A=$ K, Rb, Cs, Tl/K) superconducting systems. Both resistivity and DC susceptibility measurements reveal a magnetic phase transition...
1408.0842v1
2014-08-10
Unfolding of the electronic structure through the induced representations of space groups: Application to Fe-based superconductors
We revisit the problem that relevant parts of bandstructures for a given cell choice can reflect exact or approximate higher symmetries of subsystems in the cell and can therefore be significantly simplified by an unfolding procedure that recovers the higher symmetry. We show that bandstructure unfolding can be underst...
1408.2258v2
2014-08-19
Neutrino and anti-neutrino energy loss rates due to iron isotopes suitable for core-collapse simulations
Accurate estimate of neutrino energy loss rates are needed for the study of the late stages of the stellar evolution, in particular for cooling of neutron stars and white dwarfs. The energy spectra of neutrinos and antineutrinos arriving at the Earth can also provide useful information on the primary neutrino fluxes as...
1408.4321v1
2014-08-19
Stellar $β^{\pm}$ decay rates of iron isotopes and its implications in astrophysics
$\beta$-decay and positron decay are believed to play a consequential role during the late phases of stellar evolution of a massive star culminating in a supernova explosion. Recently the microscopic calculation of weak-interaction mediated rates on key isotopes of iron was introduced using the proton-neutron quasipart...
1408.4407v1
2014-09-10
Interpretation of the X-ray Spectral Variation of 1H0707-495 with a Variable Double Partial Covering Model
The Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H0707-495 is known to exhibit significant X-ray spectral variations. Its X-ray energy spectrum is characterized by a strong soft excess emission, an extremely deep iron K-edge structure at ~7 keV, and a putative iron L-line/edge feature at ~1 keV. We have found that the energy spectrum...
1409.3019v1
2014-09-14
Correlation-induced self-doping in intercalated iron-pnictide superconductor Ba2Ti2Fe2As4O
The electronic structure of the intercalated iron-based superconductor Ba2Ti2Fe2As4O (Tc - 21.5 K) has been investigated by using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and combined local density approximation and dynamical mean field theory calculations. The electronic states near the Fermi level are dominated by b...
1409.4090v1
2014-09-29
MD Simulations of Compression of Nanoscale Iron Pillars
It is now possible to create perfect crystal nanowires of many metals. The deformation of such objects requires a good understanding of the processes involved in plasticity at the nanoscale. Isotropic compression of such nanometre scale micropillars is a good model system to understand the plasticity. Here we investiga...
1409.8328v1
2014-10-14
NLTE effects on AGB stars in 47 Tucanae
We present the iron abundance of 24 asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars members of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, obtained with high-resolution spectra collected with the FEROS spectrograph at the MPG/ESO-2.2m Telescope. We find that the iron abundances derived from neutral lines (with mean value [Fe I/H] = -0.94 +/-...
1410.3841v1
2014-10-21
A Study on the time resolution of Glass RPC
The 50~kton Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector at the underground India based Neutrino Observatory (INO) will make measurements on atmospheric neutrinos. Muons produced in charged current (CC) interactions of muon neutrinos with the iron are tracked spatially and temporally through the signals that they produce in the Re...
1410.5532v1
2014-11-16
Distinguishing spin-orbit coupling and nematic order in the electronic spectrum of iron-based superconductors
The low-energy electronic states of the iron-based superconductors are strongly affected by both spin-orbit coupling and, when present, by the nematic order. These two effects have different physical origins, yet they can lead to similar gap features in the electronic spectrum. Here we show how to disentangle them expe...
1411.4303v1
2014-12-04
High transport Jc in magnetic fields up to 28 T of stainless steel/Ag double sheathed Ba122 tapes fabricated by scalable rolling process
The recently discovered iron-based superconductors with very high upper critical field and small anisotropy have been regarded as a potential candidate material for high field applications. However, enhancements of superconducting properties are still needed to boost the successful use of iron-based superconductors in ...
1412.1580v1
2014-12-12
Magnetism of BaFe2Se3 studied by Mössbauer spectroscopy
The compound BaFe2Se3 (Pnma) has been synthesized in the form of single crystals with the average composition Ba0.992Fe1.998Se3. The Moessbauer spectroscopy used for investigation of the valence states of Fe in this compound at temperature ranging from 4.2 K till room temperature revealed the occurrence of mixed-valenc...
1412.4024v2
2015-01-27
The Compton hump and variable blue wing in the extreme low-flux NuSTAR observations of 1H0707-495
The Narrow-line Seyfert I galaxy, 1H0707-495, has been well observed in the 0.3-10 keV band, revealing a dramatic drop in flux in the iron K alpha band, a strong soft excess, and short timescale reverberation lags associated with these spectral features. In this paper, we present the first results of a deep 250 ks NuST...
1501.06849v2
2015-01-29
Superconducting properties of sulfur-doped iron selenide
The recent discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in single-layer iron selenide has generated significant experimental interest for optimizing the superconducting properties of iron-based superconductors through the lattice modification. For simulating the similar effect by changing the chemical composition du...
1501.07346v1
2015-02-25
Crossover of the pairing symmetry from $s$- to $d$-wave in iron pnictide superconductors
One of the major themes in the physics of condensed matter is unconventional superconductivity in correlated electronic systems. The symmetry structure of Cooper pairs is thought to be the key to the understanding of the pairing mechanism of their superconductivity. In iron pnictide superconductors, the precise symmetr...
1502.07130v1
2015-04-20
A Mott insulator continuously connected to iron pnictide superconductors
Iron-based superconductivity develops near an antiferromagnetic order and out of a bad metal normal state, which has been interpreted as originating from a proximate Mott transition. Whether an actual Mott insulator can be realized in the phase diagram of the iron pnictides remains an open question. Here we use transpo...
1504.05116v2
2015-04-26
Manifestation of nematic degrees of freedom in the Raman response function of iron pnictides
We establish a relation between the Raman response function in the $B_{1g}$ channel and the electronic contribution to the nematic susceptibility within the spin-driven approach to electron nematicity of the iron based superconductors. The spin-driven nematic phase, characterized by the broken $C_4$ symmetry, but unbro...
1504.06841v2
2015-05-19
Direct observation of a Fermi liquid-like normal state in an iron-pnictide superconductor
There are two prerequisites for understanding high-temperature (high-T$_c$) superconductivity: identifying the pairing interaction and a correct description of the normal state from which superconductivity emerges. The nature of the normal state of iron-pnictide superconductors, and the role played by correlations aris...
1505.05139v1
2015-05-22
Interaction-induced singular Fermi surface in a high-temperature oxypnictide superconductor
In the family of iron-based superconductors, LaFeAsO-type materials possess the simplest electronic structure due to their pronounced two-dimensionality. And yet they host superconductivity with the highest transition temperature Tc=55K. Early theoretical predictions of their electronic structure revealed multiple larg...
1505.06152v1
2015-05-22
Double-Q spin-density wave in iron arsenide superconductors
Elucidating the nature of the magnetic ground state of iron-based superconductors is of paramount importance in unveiling the mechanism behind their high temperature superconductivity. Until recently, it was thought that superconductivity emerges only from an orthorhombic antiferromagnetic stripe phase, which can in pr...
1505.06175v1
2015-05-29
Tables of phase functions, opacities, albedos, equilibrium temperatures, and radiative accelerations of dust grains in exoplanets
There has been growing observational evidence for the presence of condensates in the atmospheres and/or comet-like tails of extrasolar planets. As a result, systematic and homogeneous tables of dust properties are useful in order to facilitate further observational and theoretical studies. In this paper we present calc...
1505.08013v2
2015-06-02
Enhancement of the 6.4 keV line in the inner Galactic ridge: Proton-induced fluorescence?
A common idea for the origin of the Galactic diffuse X-ray emission, particularly that of the iron lines from neutral and highly ionized atoms, is a superposition of many cataclysmic variables and coronally active binaries. In this scenario, the flux should symmetrically distribute between the east and west on the plan...
1506.00759v1
2015-06-02
Localization and Orbital Selectivity in Iron-Based Superconductors with Cu Substitution
We study an inhomogeneous three-orbital Hubbard model for the Cu-substituted iron pnictides using an extended real-space Green's function method combined with density functional calculations. We find that the onsite interactions of the Cu ions are the principal determinant of whether an electron dopant or a hole dopant...
1506.00767v3
2015-06-06
Spectroscopic Studies of Quasiparticle Low-Energy Excitations in Cuprate and Iron-Based High-Temperature Superconductors
Recent development in the physics of high-temperature superconductivity is reviewed, with special emphasis on the studies of the low-energy excitations of cuprate and iron-based superconductors. For cuprate superconductors, a phenomenology based on coexisting competing orders with superconductivity in the ground state ...
1506.02091v1
2015-06-09
Better Alternative to "Astronomical Silicate": Laboratory-Based Optical Functions of Chondritic/Solar Abundance Glass With Application to HD161796
"Astronomical" or "circumstellar" silicate optical functions (real and imaginary indices of refraction n and k have been previously derived from compositionally and structurally disparate samples; past values were compiled from different sources in the literature, and are essentially kluges of observational, laboratory...
1506.03110v1
2015-06-18
Unusual Sensitivity of Superconductivity to Strain in Iron-Based 122 Superconductors
Co-doped BaFe2As2 has been previously shown to have an unusually significant improvement of Tc (up to 2 K, or almost 10%) with annealing 1-2 weeks at 700 or 800 C, where such annealing conditions are insufficient to allow significant atomic diffusion. While confirming similar behavior in optimally Co-doped SrFe2As2 sam...
1506.05735v1