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2009-03-19
Superconductivity at 17 K in (Fe2P2)(Sr4Sc2O6): a new superconducting layered pnictide oxide with a thick perovskite oxide layer
A new layered oxypnictide (Fe2P2)(Sr4Sc2O6) have been synthesized by solid-state reaction. This material has an alternating layer stacking structure of anti-fluorite Fe2P2 and perovskite-based Sr4Sc2O6 oxide layers. Space group of the material is P4/nmm and lattice constants a and c are 4.016 A and 15.543 A, respective...
0903.3314v3
2009-03-20
Inverse Iron Isotope Effect on the transition temperature of the (Ba,K)Fe2As2 superconductor
We report that (Ba,K)Fe2As2 superconductor (a transition temperature, Tc = 38 K) shows inverse Iron isotope effect (-0.18) (the sample including the larger atomic weight of Fe depicts higher Tc). Measurements of both temperature dependent magnetization and resistivity reveal a clear inverse shift by systematic studies ...
0903.3515v3
2009-03-25
Orbital coupling and superconductivity in the iron pnictides
We demonstrate that strong inter-orbital interaction is very efficient to achieve superconductivity due to magnetic fluctuations in the iron pnictides. Fermi surface states that are coupled by the antiferromagnetic wave vector are often of different orbital nature, causing pair-hopping interactions between distinct Fe-...
0903.4473v2
2009-03-30
New iron-based arsenide oxides (Fe2As2)(Sr4M2O6)(M = Sc, Cr)
We have discovered new layered oxyarsenides (Fe2As2)(Sr4M2O6) (M = Sc, Cr: M-22426). These materials are isostructural with (Fe2P2)(Sr4Sc2O6), which was found in our previous study. The new compounds are tetragonal with a space group of P4/nmm and consist of the anti-fluorite type FeAs layer and perovskite-type blockin...
0903.5124v3
2009-03-31
Structure and Physical properties of New layered oxypnictides $Sr_4Sc_2O_6M_2As_2$ (M=Fe and Co)
We have successfully prepared the new layered oxypnictides $Sr_4Sc_2O_6M_2As_2$ (M=Fe and Co). They adopt the tetragonal structure, being the same as that of $Sr_4Sc_2O_6Fe_2P_2$. The lattice constants are a=0.4045 nm and c= 0.5802 nm for M=Fe, and a=0.4045 nm and c=1.5695 nm for M=Co, respectively. Their transport and...
0903.5484v1
2009-03-31
Momentum dependence and nodes of the superconducting gap in iron-pnictides
We discuss the structure of the superconducting gap in iron pnictides. In the itinerant electron picture, gaps with or without nodes have the extended s-wave (s+) symmetry and emerge within the same pairing mechanism, determined by the interplay between intra-pocket repulsion and inter-band pair hopping. If the pair ho...
0903.5547v1
2009-04-05
Superconductivity in Ir-doped LaFe1-xIrxAsO
We report the realization of superconductivity by 5d element Ir doping in LaFeAsO, a prototype parent compound of high-temperature iron based superconductors. X-ray diffraction patterns indicate that the material has formed the ZrCuSiAs-type structure with a space group P4/nmm. The systematic evolution of the lattice c...
0904.0772v4
2009-04-06
Superconductivity in Ti-doped Iron-Arsenide Compound Sr4Cr0.8Ti1.2O6Fe2As2
Superconductivity was achieved in Ti-doped iron-arsenide compound Sr4Cr0.8Ti1.2O6Fe2As2 (abbreviated as Cr-FeAs-42622). The x-ray diffraction measurement shows that this material has a layered structure with the space group of \emph{P4/nmm}, and with the lattice constants a = b = 3.9003 A and c = 15.8376 A. Clear diama...
0904.0972v3
2009-04-20
Constraints on the absorption-dominated model for the X-ray spectrum of MCG-6-30-15
Complexities in the X-ray spectrum of the nearby Seyfert 1.2 galaxy MCG-6-30-15 are commonly interpreted in terms of a broad iron line and the associated Compton reflection hump from the innermost relativistic regions of an accretion disk around a rapidly spinning black hole. However, an alternative model has recently ...
0904.3099v1
2009-04-24
Synthesis, characterization and low temperature studies of iron chalcogenide superconductors
We have synthesized tetragonal iron selenide and telluride superconductors through solid state reaction at 450deg.C and 550deg.C respectively. These synthesis temperatures have been established by optimization. Electrical resistivity and magnetic susceptibility measurements (4.2-300 K) confirm superconductivity with Tc...
0904.3851v1
2009-04-26
Computational Physics and Reality: Looking for Some Overlap at the Blacksmith Shop
The paper describes two general problems encountered in computational assignments at the introductory level. First, novice students often treat computer code as almost magic incantations, and like novices in many fields, have trouble creating new algorithms or procedures to solve novel problems. Second, the nature of c...
0904.3960v3
2009-04-28
Impurity effect as a probe for order parameter symmetry in iron-based superconductors
The pointlike impurity scattering is studied for a superconductor with different pairing symmetries based on a minimal two band model proposed by S. Raghu $et$ $al.$ [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 77}, R220503 (2008)], and the self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. Two intra-gap resonance peaks are found at or near the no...
0904.4273v8
2009-04-28
Low-temperature thermal conductivity of BaFe2As2: Parent compound of iron-arsenide superconductors
We report low-temperature thermal conductivity down to 40 mK of the antiferromagnet BaFe$_2$As$_{2}$, which is the parent compound of recently discovered iron-based superconductors. In the investigated temperature range below 4 K, the thermal conductivity $\kappa$ is well described by the expression $\kappa$ = $aT$ + $...
0904.4470v3
2009-05-04
Unusual Fermi surface nesting in parent compounds of iron arsenic high temperature superconductors revealed by Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
We use angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) to study the band structure of BaFe2As2 and CaFe2As2, two of the parent compounds of the iron arsenic high temperature superconductors. We find clear evidence for band back folding and hybridization demonstrating that conduction electrons are strongly affected by...
0905.0271v1
2009-05-12
Metal - Insulator transition in Fe1.01-xCuxSe
Iron Selenide, Fe1.01Se, the layered parent compound of the recently discovered superconducting arsenide family, has previously been shown to be non magnetic and superconducting with a critical temperature of 8 K. Here we show that copper can be substituted at the iron site in Fe1.01Se up to a solubility limit of 20-30...
0905.1875v1
2009-05-22
Intergrain Josephson Currents in Multigap Superconductors: Microscopic Origin of Low Intergrain Critical Current and Its Recovery Potential in Iron-Pnictide Materials
We microscopically examine the intergrain Josephson current in iron-pnictide superconductors in order to solve the puzzle of why the intergrain current is much lower than the intragrain one. The theory predicts that the intergrain Josephson current is significantly reduced by the $\pm$s-wave symmetry when the incoheren...
0905.3592v3
2009-05-29
Bragg diffraction and the Iron crust of cold Neutron Stars
If cooled-down neutron stars have a thin atomic crystalline-iron crust, they must diffract X-rays of appropriate wavelength. If the diffracted beam is to be visible from Earth, the illuminating source must be very intense and near the reflecting star. An example is a binary system composed of two neutron stars in close...
0905.4837v3
2009-06-10
Three-dimensional electronic structure of superconducting iron pnictides observed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
We have performed an angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) study of the undoped and electron-doped iron pnictides BaFe2\_{-x}CoxAs2 (Ba122) (x=0, 0.14) and studied the Fermi surfaces (FSs) and band dispersions near the Fermi level. The FS sheets we observed are consistent with the shrinkage of the hole-like...
0906.1846v1
2009-06-19
High Resolution Optical Spectroscopy of a Newly Discovered Post-AGB Star with a Surprising Metallicity in the Globular Cluster M79
An abundance analysis based on a high-resolution spectrum is presented for a newly discovered post-AGB star in the globular cluster M79. The surprising result is that the iron abundance of the star is apparently about 0.6 dex less than that of the cluster's red giants as reported by published studies including a recent...
0906.3706v2
2009-06-21
Multi-gap nodeless superconductivity in iron selenide FeSe$_x$: evident from quasiparticle heat transport
The in-plane thermal conductivity $\kappa$ of the iron selenide superconductor FeSe$_x$ ($T_c$ = 8.8 K) were measured down to 120 mK and up to 14.5 T ($\simeq 3/4 H_{c2}$). In zero field, the residual linear term $\kappa_0/T$ at $ T \to 0$ is only about 16 $\mu$W K$^{-2}$ cm$^{-1}$, less than 4% of its normal state val...
0906.3852v1
2009-06-24
Doping-dependent pairing symmetry in the Iron-Pnictides
We use the functional renormalization group method to analyze the phase diagram of a 4-band model for the iron-pnictides subject to band interactions with certain A_{1g} momentum dependence. We determine the parameter regimes where an extended s-wave pairing instability with and without nodes emerges. On the electron-d...
0906.4475v1
2009-06-25
Doping dependence of the lattice dynamics in Ba(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$)$_2$As$_2$ studied by Raman spectroscopy
We report Raman scattering spectra of iron-pnictide superconductor Ba(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$)$_2$As$_2$ single crystals with varying cobalt $x$ content. Upon cooling through the tetragonal-to-orthorhombic transition, we observe a large splitting of the E$_g$ in-plane phonon modes involving Fe and As displacements. The splitt...
0906.4569v1
2009-06-26
A consistent description of the iron dimer spectrum with a correlated single-determinant wave function
We study the iron dimer by using an accurate ansatz for quantum chemical calculations based on a simple variational wave function, defined by a single geminal expanded in molecular orbitals and combined with a real space correlation factor. By means of this approach we predict that, contrary to previous expectations, t...
0906.4824v1
2009-07-01
The CTOF measurements and Monte Carlo analyses of neutron spectra for backward direction from iron target irradiated by protons with energies from 400 to 1200 MeV
A calorimetric-time-of-flight (CTOF) technique was used for real-time, high-precision measurement of neutron spectrum at the angle of 175 degrees from the initial proton beam direction, which hits a face plane of a cylindrical iron target of 20 cm in diameter and 25 cm thick. A comparison was performed between the neut...
0907.0181v1
2009-07-06
Electrosteric enhanced stability of functional sub-10 nm cerium and iron oxide particles in cell culture medium
Applications of nanoparticles in biology require that the nanoparticles remain stable in solutions containing high concentrations of proteins and salts, as well as in cell culture media. In this work, we developed simple protocols for the coating of sub-10 nm nanoparticles and evaluated the colloidal stability of dispe...
0907.1008v1
2009-07-07
Tight binding model for iron pnictides
We propose a five-band tight-binding model for the Fe-As layers of iron pnictides with the hopping amplitudes calculated within the Slater-Koster framework. The band structure found in DFT, including the orbital content of the bands, is well reproduced using only four fitting parameters to determine all the hopping amp...
0907.1259v2
2009-07-16
Spin-Phonon Coupling and Superconductivity in Fe Pnictides
We propose a theory of strong spin-lattice and spin-phonon coupling in iron pnictides and discuss its implications on superconductivity. Strong magneto-volume effect in iron compounds has long been known as the Invar effect. Fe pnictides also exhibit this effect, reflected in particular to the atomic volume of Fe defin...
0907.2734v1
2009-07-22
Relativistic Broadening of Iron Emission Lines in a Sample of AGN
We present a uniform X-ray spectral analysis of eight type-1 active galactic nuclei (AGN) that have been previously observed with relativistically broadened iron emission lines. Utilizing data from the XMM-Newton European Photon Imaging Camera (EPIC-pn) we carefully model the spectral continuum, taking complex intrinsi...
0907.3850v1
2009-07-23
Large specific absorption rates in the magnetic hyperthermia properties of metallic iron nanocubes
We report on the magnetic hyperthermia properties of chemically synthesized ferromagnetic 11 and 16 nm Fe(0) nanoparticles of cubic shape displaying the saturation magnetization of bulk iron. The specific absorption rate measured on 16 nm nanocubes is 1690+-160 W/g at 300 kHz and 66 mT. This corresponds to specific los...
0907.4063v3
2009-07-23
Superconductivity in the Iron-Pnictide Parent Compound SrFe2As2
The appearance of superconductivity at ambient pressures in the undoped iron pnictide parent compound SrFe2As2 is studied experimentally using several techniques and approaches to aid in understanding the nature of this phase. Low temperature magnetization measurements of single crystals of SrFe2As2 reveal diamagnetic ...
0907.4141v1
2009-08-21
Magnetooptic enhancement and magnetic properties in Fe antidot films with hexagonal symmetry
The magnetooptic and magnetic properties of hexagonal arrays of holes in optically thin iron films are presented. We analyze their dependence on the hole radius and compare the results to a continuous iron film of same thickness. We observe a large enhancement of the magnetooptic Kerr rotation with respect to that of t...
0908.3129v2
2009-09-02
Origin of critical-temperature enhancement of an iron-based high-T_c superconductor, LaFeAsO_{1-x}F_{x} : NMR study under high pressure
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements of an iron (Fe)-based superconductor LaFeAsO_{1-x}F_x (x = 0.08 and 0.14) were performed at ambient pressure and under pressure. The relaxation rate 1/T_1 for the overdoped samples (x = 0.14) shows T-linear behavior just above T_c, and pressure application enhances 1/T_1T s...
0909.0318v2
2009-09-02
Computational study of boron nitride nanotube synthesis: how catalyst morphology stabilizes the boron nitride bond
In an attempt to understand why catalytic methods for the growth of boron nitride nanotubes work much worse than for their carbon counterparts, we use first-principles calculations to study the energetics of elemental reactions forming N2, B2 and BN molecules on an iron catalyst. We observe that in the case of these sm...
0909.0545v1
2009-09-07
On the Crustal Matter of Magnetars
We have investigated some of the properties of dense sub-nuclear matter at the crustal region (both the outer crust and the inner crust region) of a magnetar. The relativistic version of Thomas-Fermi (TF) model is used in presence of strong quantizing magnetic field for the outer crust matter. The compressed matter in ...
0909.1173v1
2009-09-08
Molecular dynamics study of hcp/fcc nucleation and growth in bcc iron driven by uniaxial strain
Molecular dynamics simulations are performed to investigate the structural phase transition in body-centered cubic (bcc) single crystal iron under high strain rate loading. We study the nucleation and growth of the hexagonal-close-packed (hcp) and face-centered-cubic (fcc) phases, and their crystal orientation dependen...
0909.1407v1
2009-09-16
Chalcogen-height dependent magnetic interactions and magnetic order switching in FeSe$_x$Te$_{1-x}$
Magnetic properties of iron chalcogenide superconducting materials are investigated using density functional calculations. We find the stability of magnetic phases is very sensitive to the height of chalcogen species from the Fe plane: while FeTe with optimized Te height has the double-stripe-type $(\pi,0)$ magnetic or...
0909.2916v1
2009-09-16
Superconductivity at 39 K in New Iron Pnictide Oxide (Fe2As2)(Sr4(Mg,Ti)2O6)
We have discovered a new iron pnictide oxide superconductor (Fe2As2)(Sr4(Mg,Ti)2O6). This material is isostructual with (Fe2As2)(Sr4M2O6) (M = Sc, Cr), which was found in our previous study. The structure of this compound is tetragonal with a space group of P4/nmm and consists of the anti-fluorite type FeAs and perovsk...
0909.2945v3
2009-09-21
Study of sdO models. Pulsation Analysis
We have explored the possibility of driving pulsation modes in models of sdO stars in which the effects of element diffusion, gravitational settling and radiative levitation have been neglected so that the distribution of iron-peak elements remains uniform throughout the evolution. The stability of these models was det...
0909.3778v1
2009-10-01
First-Principles Study for the Anisotropy of Iron-based Superconductors toward Power and Device Applications
Performing the first-principles calculations, we investigate the anisotropy in the superconducting state of iron-based superconductors to gain an insight into their potential applications. The anisotropy ratio $\gamma_\lambda$ of the c-axis penetration depth to the ab-plane one is relatively small in BaFe2As2 and LiFeA...
0910.0107v1
2009-10-12
Neutrino and Antineutrino Inclusive Charged-current Cross Section Measurements with the MINOS Near Detector
The energy dependence of the neutrino-iron and antineutrino-iron inclusive charged-current cross sections and their ratio have been measured using a high-statistics sample with the MINOS Near Detector exposed to the NuMI beam from the Main Injector at Fermilab. Neutrino and antineutrino fluxes were determined using a l...
0910.2201v2
2009-10-30
Antiphase magnetic boundaries in iron-based superconductors: A first-principle density-functional theory study
Superconductivity arises in the layered iron-pnictide compounds when magnetic long range order disappears. We use first principles density functional methods to study magnetic arrangements that may compete with long range order near the phase boundary. Specifically, we study the energetics and charge density distributi...
0911.0036v1
2009-11-01
Andreev bound states in iron pnictide superconductors
Recently, Andreev bound states in iron pnictide have been proposed as an experimental probe to detect the relative minus sign in the $s_\pm$-wave pairing. While previous theoretical investigations demonstrated the feasibility of the approach, the local density of states in the midgap regime is small, making the detecti...
0911.0175v1
2009-11-02
Spin-Density-Wave and Asymmetry of Coherence Peaks in iron-Pnictide Superconductors from a two-orbital model
We study theoretically the coexistence of the spin-density-wave (SDW) and superconductivity in electron-doped iron-pnictide superconductors based on the two orbital model and Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. The phase diagram is mapped out and the evolution of the Fermi surface as the doping varies is presented. The loc...
0911.0385v3
2009-11-02
Non-stoichiometry and the magnetic structure of Sr2CrO3FeAs
The iron arsenide Sr2CrO3FeAs with the tetragonal Sr2GaO3CuS-type structure was synthesized and its crystal structure re-determined by neutron powder diffraction. In contrast to previous X-ray crystallographic studies, a mixed occupancy of chromium and iron was found within the FeAs4/4 layer (93+/-1% Fe : 7+/-1% Cr). W...
0911.0450v2
2009-11-09
Small-q Phonon Mediated Unconventional Superconductivity in the Iron Pnictides
We report self-consistent calculations of the gap symmetry for the iron-based high-temperature superconductors using realistic small-q phonon mediated pairing potentials and four-band energy dispersions. When both electron and hole Fermi surface pockets are present, we obtain the nodeless $s_\pm$ state that was first e...
0911.1461v3
2009-11-10
Fermi-liquid, non-Fermi-liquid, and Mott phases in iron pnictides and cuprates
The role of Coulomb correlations in the iron pnictide LaFeAsO is studied by generalizing exact diagonalization dynamical mean field theory to five orbitals. For rotationally invariant Hund's rule coupling a continuous transition from a paramagnetic Fermi-liquid phase to a non-Fermi-liquid metallic phase exhibiting froz...
0911.1940v2
2009-11-17
A re--analysis of the iron line in the XMM-Newton data from the low/hard state in GX339--4
The detection of an extremely broad iron line in XMM-Newton MOS data from the low/hard state of the black hole binary GX339-4 is the only piece of evidence which unambiguously conflicts with the otherwise extremely successful truncated disc interpretation of this state. However, it also conflicts with some aspect of ob...
0911.3243v2
2009-11-19
Magnetic impurity resonance states and symmetry of the superconducting order parameter in iron-based superconductors
We investigate the effect of magnetic impurities on the local quasiparticle density of states (LDOS) in iron-based superconductors. Employing the two-orbital model where 3$d$ electron and hole conduction bands are hybridizing with the localized $f$-orbital of the impurity spin, we investigate how various symmetries of ...
0911.3738v2
2009-11-20
HTSC-glue in doped copper oxides and iron pnictides: mobile CT-excitons within in-plane Ginzburg HTSC-sandwich
It is demonstrated that high critical temperature of superconducting transition in cuprates and new iron-based superconductors is reached because of the Little-Ginzburg exciton mechanism of HTSC when Cooper pairing of mobile charge carriers is mediated by excitons which characteristic energy is essentially higher than ...
0911.4089v1
2009-11-27
Superconductivity in iron telluride thin films under tensile stress
By realizing in thin films a tensile stress state, superconductivity of 13 K was introduced into FeTe, an non-superconducting parent compound of the iron pnictides and chalcogenides, with transition temperature higher than that of its superconducting isostructural counterpart FeSe. For these tensile stressed films, the...
0911.5282v1
2009-11-30
Stochastic statistical theory of nucleation and evolution of nano-sized precipitates in alloys with application to precipitation of copper in iron
The consistent and computationally efficient stochastic statistical approach (SSA) is suggested to study kinetics of nucleation and evolution of nano-sized precipitates in alloys. An important parameter of the theory is the size of locally equilibrated regions at the nucleation stage which is estimated using the "maxim...
0911.5558v2
2009-12-02
Vortex as a probe - suggested measurement of the order parameter structure in iron-based superconductors
Impurities, inevitably present in all samples, induce elastic transitions between quasiparticle states on the contours of constant energy. These transitions may be seen in Fourier transformed scanning tunneling spectroscopy experiments, sorted by their momentum transfer. In a superconductor, anomalous scattering in the...
0912.0527v2
2009-12-08
About chemical composition of the primary cosmic radiation at ultra-high energies
The fluxes of electrons, positrons, gammas, Cherenkov photons and muons in individual extensive air showers induced by the primary protons and helium, oxygen and iron nuclei at the level of observation have been estimated with help of the code CORSICA 6.616. The comparison show that the values of the function Xi**2 per...
0912.1478v1
2009-12-08
Neutron diffraction study on phase transition and thermal expansion of SrFeAsF
The magnetic ordering and crystal structure of iron pnictide SrFeAsF was investigated by using neutron powder diffraction method. With decreasing temperature, the tetragonal to orthorhombic phase transition is found at 180 K, while the paramagnetic to antiferromagnetic phase transition set in at 133 K. Similar to the p...
0912.1530v1
2009-12-09
Superconductivity in New Iron Pnictide Oxide (Fe2As2)(Sr4(Mg,Ti)2O6)
We have discovered a new iron pnictide oxide superconductor (Fe2As2)(Sr4(Mg,Ti)2O6). This material is isostructual with (Fe2As2)(Sr4M2O6) (M = Sc, Cr, V), which were found in previous studies. The structure of this compound is tetragonal with a space group of P4/nmm and consists of the anti-fluorite type FeAs layer and...
0912.1840v1
2009-12-10
Phase diagram and Gap anisotropy in Iron-Pnictide Superconductors
Using the fluctuation-exchange (FLEX) approximation we study an effective five-band Hubbard model for iron-pnictide superconductors obtained from the first-principles band structure. We preclude deformations of the Fermi surface due to electronic correlations by introducing a static potential, which mimics the effect o...
0912.1893v2
2009-12-10
Orbital Fluctuation Mediated Superconductivity in Iron Pnictides: Analysis of Five Orbital Hubbard-Holstein Model
In iron pnictides, we find that the moderate electron-phonon interaction due to the Fe-ion oscillation can induce the critical d-orbital fluctuations, without being prohibited by the Coulomb interaction. These fluctuations give rise to the strong pairing interaction for the s-wave superconducting (SC) state without sig...
0912.1975v2
2009-12-11
Superconductivity in a Two-Orbital Hubbard Model with Electron and Hole Fermi Pockets: Application in Iron Oxypnictide Superconductors
We investigate the electronic states of a one-dimensional two-orbital Hubbard model with band splitting by the exact diagonalization method. The Luttinger liquid parameter $K_{\rho}$ is calculated to obtain superconducting (SC) phase diagram as a function of on-site interactions: the intra- and inter-orbital Coulomb $U...
0912.2173v1
2009-12-16
Strong electron correlations in the normal state of FeSe0.42Te0.58
We investigate the normal state of the '11' iron-based superconductor FeSe0.42Te0.58 by angle resolved photoemission. Our data reveal a highly renormalized quasiparticle dispersion characteristic of a strongly correlated metal. We find sheet dependent effective carrier masses between ~ 3 - 16 m_e corresponding to a mas...
0912.3152v2
2009-12-17
Universal Decomposition of the Low-Frequency Conductivity Spectra of Iron-Pnictides Uncovering Fermi-Liquid Behavior
Infrared reflectivity measurements on 122 iron-pnictides reveal the existence of two electronic subsystems. The one gapped due to the spin-density-wave transition in the parent materials, such as EuFe$_2$As$_{2}$, is responsible for superconductivity in the doped compounds, like Ba(Fe$_{0.92}$Co$_{0.08})_2$As$_{2}$ and...
0912.3334v2
2009-12-18
Coexistence between superconducting and spin density wave states in iron-based superconductors: Ginzburg-Landau analysis
We consider the interplay between superconducting (SC) and commensurate spin-density-wave (SDW) orders in iron-pnictides by analyzing a multiple order Ginzburg-Landau free energy. We are particularly interested in whether the doping-induced transition between the two states is first order, or the two pure phases are se...
0912.3556v1
2009-12-21
Possible origin of the reduced magnetic moment in iron pnictides: A dynamical mean field theory study
We investigate the phase diagram of a two-band frustrated Hubbard model in the framework of dynamical mean field theory. While a first-order phase transition occurs from a paramagnetic (PM) metal to an antiferromagnetic (AF) insulator when both bands are equally frustrated, an intermediate AF metallic phase appears in ...
0912.4024v2
2010-01-07
Superconductivity without magnetism in LiFeAs
The particular shape of the Fermi surface can give rise to a number of collective quantum phenomena in solids, such as density wave orderings or even superconductivity. In many new iron superconductors this shape, the 'nested' Fermi surface, is indeed observed, but its role in the formation of spin-density waves or sup...
1001.1147v1
2010-01-12
Magnetic form factor of SrFe$_2$As$_2$
Neutron diffraction measurements have been carried out to investigate the magnetic form factor of the parent SrFe2As2 system of the iron-based superconductors. The general feature is that the form factor is approximately isotropic in wave vector, indicating that multiple d-orbitals of the iron atoms are occupied as exp...
1001.1941v1
2010-01-22
X-ray spectroscopy of the hot has in the M31 bulge
We present an X-ray spectroscopic study of the nuclear region of the M31 bulge, based on observations of the Xmm-Newton Reflection Grating Spectrometers. The obtained high-resolution grating spectra clearly show individual emission lines of highly-ionized iron and oxygen, which unambiguously confirm the presence of dif...
1001.4058v1
2010-01-30
Magnetic properties of iron pnictides from spin-spiral calculations
The wave-vector (q) and doping dependences of the magnetic energy, iron moment, and effective exchange interactions in LaFeAsO, BaFe2As2, and SrFe2As2\ are studied by self-consistent LSDA calculations for co-planar spin spirals. For the undoped compounds, the calculated total energy, E(q), reaches its minimum at q corr...
1002.0061v1
2010-02-08
Theory of itinerant magnetic excitations in the SDW phase of iron-based superconductors
We argue that salient experimental features of the magnetic excitations in the SDW phase of iron-based superconductors can be understood within an itinerant model. We identify a minimal itinerant model and use a multi-band RPA treatment of the dynamical spin susceptibility. Weakly-damped spin-waves are found near the o...
1002.1668v2
2010-02-09
Pressure-induced high-Tc superconducting phase in FeSe: correlation between anion height and Tc
In this study, we performed high-pressure electrical resistivity measurements of polycrystalline FeSe in the pressure range of 1-16.0 GPa at temperatures of 4-300 K. A precise evaluation of Tc from zero-resistivity temperatures revealed that Tc shows a slightly distorted dome-shaped curve, with maximum Tc (30 K) at 6 G...
1002.1832v2
2010-02-09
Normal state charge dynamics of Fe1.06Te0.88S0.14 superconductor probed with infrared spectroscopy
We have used optical spectroscopy to probe the normal state electrodynamic response of Fe$_{1.06}$Te$_{0.88}$S$_{0.14}$, a member of the 11 family of iron-based superconductors with T$_c$= 8 K. Measurements have been conducted over a wide frequency range (50 - 50000 cm$^{-1}$) at selected temperatures between 10 and 30...
1002.1948v1
2010-02-10
Half-metallic Antiferromagnet BaCrFeAs2
First-principles calculations and a tight-binding analysis predict that the iron-pnictide BaCrFeAs2 is a promising candidate for half-metallic material with fully-compensated magnetization. The transition-metal ions Cr and Fe prefer the three-dimensional intervening lattice, which yields the antiferromagnetic order of ...
1002.2018v2
2010-02-16
Orbital Ordering and Unfrustrated $(π,0)$ Magnetism from Degenerate Double Exchange in the Iron Pnictides
The magnetic excitations of the iron pnictides are explained within a degenerate double-exchange model. The local-moment spins are coupled by superexchanges $J_1$ and $J_2$ between nearest and next-nearest neighbors, respectively, and interact with the itinerant electrons of the degenerate $d_{xz}$ and $d_{yz}$ orbital...
1002.3165v3
2010-02-17
Nodes in the Gap Function of LaFePO, the Gap Function of the Fe(Se,Te) Systems, and the STM Signature of the s$_{\pm}$ Pairing
We reiterate, in more details, our previous proposal of using quasi-particle interference to determine the pairing form factor in iron-based superconductors. We also present our functional renormalization group(FRG) results on LaFePO and Fe(Se,Te) superconductors. In particular we found that the leading pairing channel...
1002.3358v2
2010-02-18
Nanocrystal Growth on Graphene with Various Degrees of Oxidation
We show a general two-step method to grow hydroxide and oxide nanocrystals of the iron family elements (Ni, Co, Fe) on graphene with two degrees of oxidation. Drastically different nanocrystal growth behaviors were observed on low-oxidation graphene sheets (GS) and highly oxidized graphite oxide (GO) in hydrothermal re...
1002.3435v1
2010-02-24
Doping dependence of spin fluctuations and electron correlations in iron pnictides
Doping dependence of the spin fluctuations and the electron correlations in the effective five-band Hubbard model for iron pnictides is investigated using the fluctuation-exchange approximation. For a moderate hole doping, we find a dominant low-energy spin excitation at Q=(\pi,0), which becomes critical at low tempera...
1002.4471v2
2010-02-25
Electronic correlations and unusual superconducting response in the optical properties of the iron-chalcogenide FeTe0.55Se0.45
The in-plane complex optical properties of the iron-chalcogenide superconductor FeTe0.55Se0.45 have been determined above and below the critical temperature Tc = 14 K. At room temperature the conductivity is described by a weakly-interacting Fermi liquid; however, below 100 K the scattering rate develops a frequency de...
1002.4846v2
2010-02-28
Iron Rings, Doctor Honoris Causa Raoul Bott, Carl Herz, and a Hidden Hand
The degree of Doctor of Sciences, honoris causa, was conferred on Raoul Bott by McGill University in 1987. Much of the work to make this happen was done by Carl Herz. Some of the author's personal recollections of both professors are included, along with some context for the awarding of this degree and ample historical...
1003.0152v1
2010-03-01
Minimum Radii of Super-Earths: Constraints from Giant Impacts
The detailed interior structure models of super-Earth planets show that there is degeneracy in the possible bulk compositions of a super-Earth at a given mass and radius, determined via radial velocity and transit measurements, respectively. In addition, the upper and lower envelopes in the mass--radius relationship, c...
1003.0451v1
2010-03-03
Atomic data activities by the OP and IP consortia: past, present and new perspectives within the VAMDC
The Opacity Project (OP) and Iron Project (IP) are pioneering international collaborations which have been computing, for more than 25 years, massive atomic data sets for astrophysical applications. We review the data activities that have been carried out, namely curation, analysis and preservation, and the development...
1003.0843v1
2010-03-04
Zeeman Relaxation of Cold Atomic Iron and Nickel in Collisions with 3He
We have measured the ratio of the diffusion cross-section to the angular momentum reorientation cross-section in the colliding Fe-3He and Ni-3He systems. Nickel (Ni) and iron (Fe) atoms are introduced via laser ablation into a cryogenically cooled experimental cell containing cold (< 1 K) 3He buffer gas. Elastic collis...
1003.1106v1
2010-03-08
Design and construction of a novel tribometer with on-line topography and wear measurement
We present a novel experimental platform that links topographical and material changes with the friction and wear behavior of oil-lubricated metal surfaces. This concept combines state-of-the-art methods for the analysis of the surface topography on the micro- and nano-scale with the online measurement of wear. At the ...
1003.1638v1
2010-03-08
Orbital-transverse density-wave instabilities in iron-based superconductors
Besides the conventional spin-density-wave (SDW) state, a new kind of orbital-transverse density-wave (OTDW) state is shown to exist generally in multi-orbital systems. We demonstrate that the orbital character of Fermi surface nesting plays an important role in density responses. The relationship between antiferromagn...
1003.1660v2
2010-03-29
Topological and Transport Properties of Dirac Fermions in Antiferromagnetic Metallic Phase of Iron-Based Superconductors
We investigate Dirac fermions in the antifferomagnetic metallic state of iron-based superconduc- tors. Deriving an effective Hamiltonian for Dirac fermions, we reveal that there exist two Dirac cones carrying the same chirality, contrary to graphene, compensated by a Fermi surface with a quadratic energy dispersion as ...
1003.5469v3
2010-04-01
Ambegaokar-Baratoff relations of Josephson critical current in heterojunctions with multi-gap superconductors
An extension of the Ambegaokar-Baratoff relation to a superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) Josephson junction with multiple tunneling channels is derived. Appling the resultant relation to a SIS Josephson junction formed by an iron-based (five-band) and a single-band Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) type superc...
1004.0044v2
2010-04-09
Electrodynamics of electron doped iron-pnictide superconductors: Normal state properties
The electrodynamic properties of Ba(Fe$_{0.92}$Co$_{0.08})_2$As$_{2}$ and Ba(Fe$_{0.95}$Ni$_{0.05})_As$_{2}$ single crystals have been investigated by reflectivity measurements in a wide frequency range. In the metallic state, the optical conductivity consists of a broad incoherent background and a narrow Drude-like co...
1004.1658v1
2010-04-19
Magnetic and Quasiparticle Excitation Spectra of an Itinerant $J_1-J_2$ Model for Iron Pnictide Superconductors
We calculate the magnetic and quasiparticle excitation spectra of an itinerant $J_1-J_2$ model for iron pnictides. In addition to an acoustic spin-wave branch, the magnetic spectrum has a second, optical branch, resulting from the coupled four-sublattice magnetic structure. The spin-wave velocity has also a planar dire...
1004.3187v2
2010-04-20
Leggett mode in a strong-coupling model of iron arsenide superconductors
Using a two-orbital model of the superconducting phase of the pnictides, we compute the spectrum of the Leggett mode -- a collective excitation of the phase of the superconducting gap known to exist in multi-gap superconductors -- for different possible symmetries of the superconducting order parameter. Specifically, w...
1004.3576v1
2010-04-22
Discovery of K-Shell Emission Lines of Neutral Atoms in the Galactic Center Region
The K-shell emission line of neutral irons from the Galactic center (GC) region is one of the key for the structure and activity of the GC. The origin is still open question, but possibly due either to X-ray radiation or to electron bombarding to neutral atoms. To address this issue, we analyzed the Suzaku X-ray spectr...
1004.3891v1
2010-04-26
Orbital Order and Spontaneous Orthorhombicity in Iron Pnictides
A growing list of experiments show orthorhombic electronic anisotropy in the iron pnictides, in some cases at temperatures well above the spin density wave transition. These experiments include neutron scattering, resistivity and magnetoresistance measurements, and a variety of spectroscopies. We explore the idea that ...
1004.4611v2
2010-04-29
Large $D-2$ Theory of Superconducting Fluctuations in a Magnetic Field and its Application to Iron-Pnictides
A Ginzburg-Landau approach to fluctuations of a layered superconductor in a magnetic field is used to show that the interlayer coupling can be incorporated within an interacting self-consistent theory of a single layer, in the limit of a large number of neighboring layers. The theory exhibits two phase transitions -- a...
1004.5277v3
2010-04-30
Quasiparticle interference in the spin-density wave phase of iron-based superconductors
We propose an explanation for the electronic nematic state observed recently in parent iron-based superconductors [T.-M. Chuang et al., Science 327, 181 (2010)]. We argue that the quasi-one-dimensional nanostructure identified in the quasiparticle interference (QPI) is a consequence of the interplay of the magnetic ($\...
1004.5460v1
2010-04-30
Coherent interfacial bonding on the FeAs tetrahedron in Fe/Ba(Fe(1-x)Co(x))2As2 bilayers
We demonstrate the growth of epitaxial Fe/Ba(Fe(1-x)Co(x))2As2 (Fe/Ba-122) bilayers on MgO(001) and LSAT(001) single crystal substrates using Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD). By exploiting the metallic nature of the FeAs tetrahedron in the Ba-122 crystal structure, we achieve a coherent interfacial bond between bcc iron ...
1004.5557v1
2010-05-03
Strong Coupling Superconductivity in Iron-Chalcogenide FeTe$_{0.55}$Se$_{0.45}$
The superconducting order parameter in the iron-chalcogenide superconductor FeTe$_{0.55}$Se$_{0.45}$ ($T_\textrm{c}$ = 14.2 K) is investigated by point-contact Andreev reflection spectroscopy. The energy gap magnitude (3.8 meV at 1.70 K) and temperature dependence as extracted from the Andreev conductance spectra revea...
1005.0190v1
2010-05-04
High Pressure Synthesis of Indirectly electron-doped 122 Iron Superconductor Sr1-xLaxFe2As2 with a maximum Tc = 22 K
Compounds of Sr1-xLaxFe2As2 were synthesized by solid state reaction at 1273 K, under pressures of 2 or 3 GPa. The Sr1-xLaxFe2As2 phase was dominant up to x = 0.5, and superconductivity was observed at $x \ge 0.2$. A maximum critical temperature Tc of 22 K, and a maximum shielding volume fraction of ~70 % were obtained...
1005.0528v2
2010-05-06
Electronic structure and possible pseudogap behavior in iron based superconductors
Starting from the simplified analytic model of electronic spectrum of iron - pnictogen (chalcogen) high - temperature superconductors close to the Fermi level, we discuss the influence of antiferromagneting (AFM)scattering both for stoichiometric case and the region of possible short - range order AFM fluctuations in d...
1005.0884v4
2010-05-12
Stripe antiferromagnetic correlations in LaFeAsO1-xFx probed by 75As NMR
The anisotropy of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate $1/T_{1}$ of $^{75}$As was investigated in the iron-based superconductor LaFeAs(O$_{1-x}$F$_{x}$) ($x = 0.07, 0.11$ and 0.14) as well as LaFeAsO. While the temperature dependence of the normal-state $1/T_1T$ in the superconducting (SC) $x = 0.07$ is different f...
1005.2013v2
2010-05-12
Striped-magnetic-order suppresses giant optical anisotropy and drives structural distortion in iron arsenide superconductors
To examine the role of magnetism in superconductivity of iron-based superconductors, we first present first-principles optical calculations on three representative parent compounds: LaFeAsO, BaFe2As2 and LiFeAs. Both nonmagnetic (NM) and spin-density wave (SDW) with striped antiferromagnetic order are considered. Due t...
1005.2121v2
2010-05-12
Charge doping-induced quasiparticle scattering in iron-pnictide superconductors as probed by vortex pinning
Charge doping of iron-pnictide superconductors leads to collective pinning of flux vortices, whereas isovalent doping does not. Moreover, flux pinning in the charge-doped compounds is consistently described by the mean-free path fluctuations introduced by the dopant atoms, allowing for the extraction of the elastic qua...
1005.2129v2
2010-05-15
A Theoretical Study of the Equation of States for Crustal Matter of Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars
We have investigated some of the properties of dense sub-nuclear matter at the crustal region (both the outer crust and the inner crust region) of a magnetar. The relativistic version of Thomas-Fermi (TF) model is used in presence of strong quantizing magnetic field for the outer crust matter. The compressed matter in ...
1005.2658v1
2010-05-24
Reduction in iron losses in Indirect Vector-Controlled IM Drive using FLC
This paper describes the use of fuzzy logic controller for efficiency optimization control of a drive while keeping good dynamic response. At steady-state light-load condition, the fuzzy controller adaptively adjusts the excitation current with respect to the torque current to give the minimum total copper and iron los...
1005.4265v1
2010-06-02
Local moments and symmetry breaking in metallic PrMnSbO
We report a combined experimental and theoretical investigation of the layered antimonide PrMnSbO which is isostructural to the parent phase of the iron pnictide superconductors. We find linear resistivity near room temperature and Fermi liquid-like T^{2} behaviour below 150 K. Neutron powder diffraction shows that unf...
1006.0341v1