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2013-01-16
High-Pressure Evolution of the Specific Heat of a Strongly Underdoped Ba(Fe0.963Co0.037)As2 Iron-Based Superconductor
We report specific-heat experiments under the influence of high pressure on a strongly underdoped Co-substituted BaFe2As2 single crystal. This allows us to study the phase diagram of this iron pnictide superconductor with a bulk thermodynamic method and pressure as a clean control parameter. The data show large specifi...
1301.3579v3
2013-01-31
Electronic structure of vacancy-ordered iron-selenide K$_{0.5}$Fe$_{1.75}$Se$_2$
The electronic structure of the vacancy-ordered K$_{0.5}$Fe$_{1.75}$Se$_2$ iron-selenide compound (278 phase) is studied using the first-principles density functional method. The ground state of the 278 phase is stripe-like antiferromagnetic, and its bare electron susceptibility shows a large peak around $(\pi, \pi)$ i...
1301.7655v3
2013-02-02
Carrier density dependence of the magnetic properties in iron-doped Bi2Se3 topological insulator
The electronic and magnetic properties of iron-doped topological insulator Bi1.84-xFe0.16CaxSe3 single crystals were studied. By co-doping Fe and Ca atoms, ferromagnetic bulk states with different carrier density (from n-type to p-type) were obtained. Effective magnetic moments for each Fe atom was estimated as small a...
1302.0371v1
2013-02-07
Discovery of Fe K-alpha X-ray reverberation around the black holes in MCG-5-23-16 and NGC 7314
Several X-ray observations have recently revealed the presence of reverberation time delays between spectral components in AGN. Most of the observed lags are between the power-law Comptonization component, seen directly, and the soft excess produced by reflection in the vicinity of the black hole. NGC 4151 was the firs...
1302.1761v2
2013-02-10
Nodal gap in iron-based superconductor CsFe$_2$As$_2$ probed by quasiparticle heat transport
The thermal conductivity of iron-based superconductor CsFe$_2$As$_2$ single crystal ($T_c =$ 1.81 K) was measured down to 50 mK. A significant residual linear term $\kappa_0/T$ = 1.27 mW K$^{-2}$ cm$^{-1}$ is observed in zero magnetic field, which is about 1/10 of the normal-state value in upper critical field $H_{c2}$...
1302.2300v2
2013-02-12
Anomalous Surface Segregation Profiles in Ferritic FeCr Stainless Steel
The iron-chromium alloy and its derivatives are widely used for their remarkable resistance to corrosion, which only occurs in a narrow concentration range around 9 to 13 atomic percent chromium. Although known to be due to chromium enrichment of a few atoms thick layer at the surfaces, the understanding of its complex...
1302.2838v1
2013-02-19
High critical current density and low anisotropy in textured Sr1-xKxFe2As2 tapes for high field applications
From the application point of view, large critical current densities Jc (H) for superconducting wires are required, preferably for magnetic fields higher than 5 T. Here we show that strong c-axis textured Sr1-xKxFe2As2 tapes with nearly isotropic transport Jc were fabricated by an ex-situ powder-in-tube (PIT) process. ...
1302.4583v1
2013-02-19
Orbital Resonance Mode in Superconducting Iron Pnictides
We show that the fluctuations associated with ferro orbital order in the $d_{xz}$ and $d_{yz}$ orbitals can develop a sharp resonance mode in the superconducting state with a nodeless gap on the Fermi surface. This orbital resonance mode appears below the particle-hole continuum and is analogous to the magnetic resonan...
1302.4749v2
2013-02-28
Superconducting Phases in Potassium-Intercalated Iron Selenides
The ubiquitous coexistence of majority insulating 245 phases and minority superconducting (SC) phases in AxFe2-ySe2 (A = K, Cs, Rb, Tl/Rb, Tl/K) formed by high-temperature routes makes pure SC phases highly desirable for studying the intrinsic properties of this SC family. Here we report that there are at least two pur...
1302.7178v1
2013-03-11
Magnetic glassy phase in FeSeTe single crystals
The evolution of the magnetic order in FeSeTe crystals as a function of Se content was investigated by means of ac/dc magnetometry and muon-spin spectroscopy. Experimental results and self-consistent DFT calculations both indicate that muons are implanted in vacant iron-excess sites, where they probe a local field main...
1303.2585v1
2013-03-14
Study of some steller iron group fusion materials for (n,p) reactions
The excitation functions for (n,p) reactions from reaction threshold to 24 MeV on some important iron (Fe) group target elements for astrophysical (n, p) reactions such as Si, Ca, Sc, Ti, Cr, Fe, Co and Ni were calculated using TALYS-1.0 nuclear model code. The new calculations on the excitation functions Of 28Si(n,p)2...
1303.3581v1
2013-03-15
Superconductivity from orbital nematic fluctuations
Recent experiments suggest that besides of antiferromagnetic fluctuations nematic fluctuations may contribute to the occurrence of superconductivity in iron pnictides. Motivated by this observation we study superconductivity from nematic fluctuations in a minimal two-band model. The employed band parameters are appropr...
1303.3806v2
2013-03-17
Hidden $(π,0)$ instability as an itinerant origin of bicollinear antiferromagnetism in Fe$_{1+x}$Te
By calculating orbitally resolved Pauli susceptibilities within maximally localized Wannier orbital basis transformed from first principles band structures, we find that magnetism in Fe$_{1+x}$Te still has its itinerant origin even without Fermi surface nesting, provided orbital modulation of particle-hole excitations ...
1303.4072v1
2013-03-18
Superconductivity From Repulsive Electronic Correlations on Alternant Cuprate and Iron-based Lattices
A key question in the theory of high-temperature superconductivity is whether Off-diagonal Long-Range Order (ODLRO) can be induced wholly or in large part by repulsive electronic correlations. Electron pairs on Cuprate and the iron-based pnictide and chalcogenide alternant lattices may interact with a strong short-rang...
1303.4235v1
2013-03-19
In-plane optical spectroscopy study on FeSe epitaxial thin film grown on SrTiO$_3$ substrate
We perform in-plane optical spectroscopy measurement on (00l) FeSe thin-film grown on SrTiO$_3$ substrate by pulsed laser deposition method. The study indicates that the low frequency conductivity consists of two Drude components, a broad one which takes up most of the spectral weight and a very narrow one roughly belo...
1303.4473v1
2013-03-19
Electronic Structure and Resonant X-ray Emission Spectra of Carbon Shells of Iron Nanoparticles
The electronic structure of carbon shells of carbon encapsulated iron nanoparticles carbon encapsulated Fe@C has been studied by X-ray resonant emission and X-ray absorption spectroscopy. The recorded spectra have been compared to the density functional calculations of the electronic structure of graphene. It has been ...
1303.4507v1
2013-03-20
Optical Properties of Iron Silicates in the Infrared to Millimeter as a Function of Temperatures and Wavelength
The Optical Properties of Astronomical Silicates with Infrared Techniques (OPASI-T) program utilizes multiple instruments to provide spectral data over a wide range of temperature and wavelengths. Experimental methods include Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) and Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) transmission, and refle...
1303.4950v1
2013-03-26
Measurements of the fluctuation-induced in-plane magnetoconductivity at high reduced temperatures and magnetic fields in the iron arsenide BaFe(2-x)NixAs2
The superconducting fluctuations well inside the normal state of Fe-based superconductors were studied through measurements of the in-plane paraconductivity and magnetoconductivity in high quality BaFe(2-x)NixAs2 crystals with doping levels from the optimal (x=0.10) up to the highly overdoped (x=0.20). These measuremen...
1303.6565v1
2013-04-02
The effect of Hydrogen atom on the Screw Dislocation Mobility in BCC Iron: A First-Principles Study
We investigate the effect of hydrogen on the mobility of a screw dislocation in body-centered cubic (bcc) iron using first-principles calculations, and show that an increase of screw dislocation velocity is expected for a limited temperature range. The interaction energy between a screw dislocation and hydrogen atoms i...
1304.0602v3
2013-04-04
Surface parameters of ferritic iron-rich Fe-Cr alloy
Using first-principles density functional theory in the implementation of the exact muffin-tin orbitals method and the coherent potential approximation, we studied the surface energy and the surface stress of the thermodynamically most stable surface facet (100) of the homogeneous disordered body-centred cubic iron-chr...
1304.1278v2
2013-04-13
Intrinsic high-temperature superconductivity in ternary iron selenides
We examine superconductivity in the mesoscopically mixed antiferromagnetic(AF) and superconducting (SC) phases of ternary iron selenides K$_{y}$Fe$_{2-x}$Se$_{2}$. It is shown that the interlayer hopping and AF order are key factors to determine $T_{c}$ of the SC phase. In general, the hopping will produce deformed Fer...
1304.3785v3
2013-04-16
Possible Nematic Order Driven by Magnetic Fluctuations in Iron Pnictides
In this paper, instabilities of the isotropic metallic phase in iron pnictides are investigated. The relevant quartic fermionic interaction terms in the model are identified using phase space arguments. Using the functional integral formalism, a Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation is used to decouple these quartic term...
1304.4617v1
2013-04-19
Robust spin fluctuations and $s\pm$ pairing in the heavily electron doped iron-based superconductors
We theoretically study the spin fluctuation and superconductivity in La1111 and Sm1111 iron-based superconductors for a wide range of electron doping. When we take into account the band structure variation by electron doping, the hole Fermi surface originating from the $d_{X^2-Y^2}$ orbital turns out to be robust again...
1304.5303v2
2013-04-22
Magnetic anisotropic energy gap and low energy spin wave excitation in antiferromagnetic block phase of K2Fe4Se5
Neutron scattering experiments were performed to investigate magnetic order and magnetic excitations in ternary iron chalcogenide K2Fe4Se5. The formation of a superlattice structure below 580 K together with the decoupling between the Fe-vacancy order-disorder transition and the antiferromagnetic order transition appea...
1304.5950v1
2013-05-13
Normal state spin dynamics in the iron-pnictide superconductors BaFe2(As1-xPx)2 and Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 probed with NMR measurements
The NMR results in iron pnictides BaFe2(As1-xPx)2 and Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 are analyzed based on the self-consistent renormalization (SCR) spin fluctuation theory. The temperature dependence of the NMR relaxation rate (T_1)^{-1} as well as the electrical resistivity is well reproduced by a SCR model where two-dimensional a...
1305.2656v1
2013-05-13
Simultaneous optimization of spin fluctuations and superconductivity under pressure in an iron-based superconductor
We present a high-pressure NMR study of the overdoped iron pnictide superconductor NaFe$_{0.94}$Co$_{0.06}$As. The low-energy antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations in the normal state, manifest as the Curie-Weiss upturn in the spin-lattice relaxation rate $1/^{75}T_1T$, first increase strongly with pressure but fall agai...
1305.2705v2
2013-05-14
Effect of electron-phonon interactions on orbital fluctuations in iron-based superconductors
To investigate the possibility whether electron-phonon coupling can enhance orbital fluctuations in iron-based superconductors, we develop an ab initio method to construct the effective low-energy models including the phonon-related terms. With the derived effective electron-phonon interactions and phonon frequencies, ...
1305.2995v2
2013-05-17
Comparative Study of Electronic structure of New Superconductors (Sr,Ca)Pd2As2 and related compound BaPd2As2
This paper presents the comparative study of LDA calculated electronic structure of new isostructural to iron based systems superconductors (Sr,Ca)Pd2As2 with Tc about 1K and similar but structurally different system BaPd2As2. Despite chemical formula looks similar to iron superconductors and even main structural motif...
1305.3979v1
2013-05-20
Effect of magnetic criticality and Fermi-surface topology on the magnetic penetration depth
We investigate the effect of anti-ferromagnetic (AF) quantum criticality on the magnetic penetration depth $\lambda(T)$ in line-nodal superconductors, including the cuprates, the iron pnictides, and the heavy-fermion superconductors. The critical magnetic fluctuation renormalizes the current vertex and drastically enha...
1305.4427v1
2013-05-20
How many quantum phase transitions exist inside the superconducting dome of the iron pnictides?
Recent experiments on two iron-pnictide families suggest the existence of a single quantum phase transition (QPT) inside the superconducting dome despite the fact that two separate transition lines - magnetic and nematic - cross the superconducting dome at $T_{c}$. Here we argue that these two observations are actually...
1305.4670v2
2013-05-21
Spin fluctuations away from (pi,0) in the superconducting phase of molecular-intercalated FeSe
Magnetic fluctuations in the molecular-intercalated FeSe superconductor Li{x}(ND2){y}(ND3){1-y}Fe2Se2 (Tc = 43K) have been measured by inelastic neutron scattering from a powder sample. The strongest magnetic scattering is observed at a wave vector Q ~ 1.4 A^{-1}, which is not consistent with the (pi,0) nesting wave ve...
1305.4898v1
2013-06-03
Scaling between magnetic and lattice fluctuations in iron-pnictide superconductors
The phase diagram of the iron arsenides is dominated by a magnetic and a structural phase transition, which need to be suppressed in order for superconductivity to appear. The proximity between the two transition temperature lines indicates correlation between these two phases, whose nature remains unsettled. Here, we ...
1306.0521v2
2013-06-17
Two-Fluid Description for Iron-Based Superconductors
We present a two-fluid description for iron-based superconductors, which contains an itinerant electron Fermi-liquid and a local moment spin-liquid, coupled together via an effective Hund's rule interaction. We examine the low-energy collective behavior of such a system. We find that an electron-spinon composite mode e...
1306.3740v3
2013-06-18
X-ray resonant photoexcitation: line widths and energies of Kα transitions in highly charged Fe ions
Photoabsorption by and fluorescence of the K{\alpha} transitions in highly charged iron ions are essential mechanisms for X-ray radiation transfer in astrophysical environments. We study photoabsorption due to the main K{\alpha} transitions in highly charged iron ions from heliumlike to fluorinelike (Fe 24+...17+) usin...
1306.4348v3
2013-06-20
A new way to measure supermassive black hole spin in accretion disc dominated Active Galaxies
We show that disc continuum fitting can be used to constrain black hole spin in a subclass of Narrow Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) AGN as their low mass and high mass accretion rate means that the disc peaks at energies just below the soft X-ray bandpass. We apply the technique to the NLS1 PG1244+026, where the optical/UV/X-ra...
1306.4786v1
2013-06-28
The role of orbital order in the stabilization of the $(π,0)$ ordered magnetic state in a minimal two-band model for iron pnictides
Spin wave excitations and stability of the ($\pi,0$) ordered magnetic state are investigated in a minimal two-band itinerant-electron model for iron pnictides. Presence of hopping anisotropy generates a strong ferro-orbital order in the $d_{xz}$ and $d_{yz}$ Fe orbitals. The orbital order sign is as observed in experim...
1306.6727v2
2013-07-05
Orbital-Selective Mottness in Layered Iron Oxychalcogenides: The Case of Na_{2}Fe_{2}OSe_{2}
Using a combination of th local-density approximtion (LDA) and dynamicla mean-field theory (DMFT) calculations, we explore the correlated electronic structure of a member of the layered Iron oxychalcogenide Na_{2}Fe_{2}OSe_{2}. We find that the parent compund is a multi-orbital Mott insulator. Surprisingly, and somewha...
1307.1693v1
2013-07-08
Weak magnetism and the Mott-state of vanadium in superconducting Sr2VO3FeAs
We report neutron scattering data and DFT calculations of the stoichiometric iron-arsenide superconductor Sr2VO3FeAs. Rietveld refinements of neutron powder patterns confirm the ideal composition without oxygen deficiencies. Experiments with polarized neutrons prove weak magnetic ordering in the V-sublattice of Sr2VO3F...
1307.2138v1
2013-07-09
Lattice Instability and Competing Spin Structures in the Double Perovskite Insulator Sr2FeOsO6
The semiconductor Sr2FeOsO6, depending on temperature, adopts two types of spin structures that differ in the spin sequence of ferrimagnetic iron - osmium layers along the tetragonal c-axis. Neutron powder diffraction experiments, 57Fe M\"ossbauer spectra, and density-functional theory calculations suggest that this be...
1307.2587v2
2013-07-11
Anomalous compressibility of ferropericlase throughout the iron spin crossover
The thermoelastic properties of ferropericlase Mg1-xFexO (x = 0.1875) throughout the iron high-to-low spin crossover have been investigated by first principles at Earth's lower mantle conditions. This crossover has important consequences for elasticity such as an anomalous bulk modulus (KS) reduction. At room temperatu...
1307.3270v1
2013-07-12
Swift and RXTE observations of the black hole transient GX 339-4 in the hard state between outbursts
We use simultaneous Swift and RXTE observations of the black hole binary GX 339-4 to measure the inner radius of its accretion disk in the hard state down to 0.4% L_{Edd} via modeling of the thermal disk emission and the relativistically broadened iron line. For the luminosity range covered in this work, our results ru...
1307.3503v1
2013-07-15
The Roche limit for close-orbiting planets: Minimum density, composition constraints, and application to the 4.2-hour planet KOI 1843.03
The requirement that a planet must orbit outside of its Roche limit gives a lower limit on the planet's mean density. The minimum density depends almost entirely on the orbital period and is immune to systematic errors in the stellar properties. We consider the implications of this density constraint for the newly-iden...
1307.4080v1
2013-07-18
Origin of electronic dimers in the spin-density wave phase of Fe-based superconductors
We investigate the emergent impurity-induced states arising from point-like scatterers in the spin-density wave phase of iron-based superconductors within a microscopic five-band model. Independent of the details of the band-structure and disorder potential, it is shown how stable magnetic (pi,pi) unidirectional nemato...
1307.4913v2
2013-07-26
Electron-phonon coupling in cuprate and iron-based superconductors revealed by Raman scattering
Electron-phonon coupling (EPC) is one of the most common and fundamental interactions in solids. It not only dominates many basic dynamic processes like resistivity, thermal conductivity etc, but also provides the pairing glue in conventional superconductors. But in high-temperature superconductors (HTSC), it is still ...
1307.6972v1
2013-07-26
Switching of intra-orbital spin excitations in electron-doped iron pnictide superconductors
We investigate the doping dependence of the magnetic excitations in two-superconducting-dome-system LaFeAsO1-xDx. Using inelastic neutron scattering, spin fluctuations at different wavenumbers were observed under both superconducting domes around x = 0.1 and 0.4, but vanished at x = 0.2 corresponding to the Tc valley. ...
1307.7016v2
2013-07-26
Coupling of the A_{1g} As-phonon to magnetism in iron pnictides
Charge, spin and lattice degrees of freedom are strongly entangled in iron superconductors. A neat consequence of this entanglement is the behavior of the A_{1g} As-phonon resonance in the different polarization symmetries of Raman spectroscopy when undergoing the magneto-structural transition. In this work we show tha...
1307.7065v1
2013-07-31
A view from inside iron-based superconductors
Muon spin spectroscopy is one of the most powerful tools to investigate the microscopic properties of superconductors. In this manuscript, an overview on some of the main achievements obtained by this technique in the iron-based superconductors (IBS) are presented. It is shown how the muons allow to probe the whole pha...
1307.8283v1
2013-08-12
Constraining possible variations of the fine structure constant in strong gravitational fields with the K$α$ iron line
In extensions of general relativity and in theories aiming at unifying gravity with the forces of the Standard Model, the value of the "fundamental constants" is often determined by the vacuum expectation value of new fields, which may thus change in different backgrounds. Variations of fundamental constants with respe...
1308.2470v2
2013-08-15
Evidence of Increased UV FeII Emission in Quasars in Candidate Overdense Regions
We present evidence for a skewed distribution of UV FeII emission in quasars within candidate overdense regions spanning spatial scales of ~ 50 Mpc at 1.11 < z < 1.67, compared to quasars in field environments at comparable redshifts. The overdense regions have an excess of high equivalent width sources (W2400 > 42 \AA...
1308.3514v1
2013-08-18
Impurity-induced sub-gap bound gap states in alkali doped iron chalcogenide superconductors
Measurements of the local density of states near impurities can be useful for identifying the superconducting gap structure in alkali doped iron chalcogenide superconductors K_xFe_{2-y}Se_2. Here, we study the effects of nonmagnetic and magnetic impurities within a nearest neighbor d-wave and next-nearest neighbor s-wa...
1308.3887v1
2013-09-03
Producing a Set of Models for the Iron Homeostasis Network
This paper presents a method for modeling biological systems which combines formal techniques on intervals, numerical simulations and satisfaction of Signal Temporal Logic (STL) formulas. The main modeling challenge addressed by this approach is the large uncertainty in the values of the parameters due to the experimen...
1309.0872v1
2013-09-05
Influence of the spreading resistance on the conductance spectrum of planar hybrid thin film SNS' junctions based on iron pnictides
To investigate the superconducting properties of iron pnictides we prepared planar hybrid SNS' junctions in thin film technology with a pnictide base electrode, a gold barrier layer and a lead counter electrode. Our design allows characterization of the electrodes and the junction independently in a 4-probe method. We ...
1309.1641v2
2013-09-10
Microlensing of Quasar UV Iron Emission
We measure the differential microlensing of the UV Fe II and Fe III emission line blends between 14 quasar image pairs in 13 gravitational lenses. We find that the UV iron emission is strongly microlensed in 4 cases with amplitudes comparable to that of the continuum. Statistically modeling the magnifications we infer ...
1309.2603v2
2013-09-13
Adsorption geometry and electronic structure of iron phthalocyanine on Ag surfaces: A LEED and photoelectron momentum mapping study
We present a comprehensive study of the adsorption behavior of iron phthalocyanine on the low-index crystal faces of silver. By combining measurements of the reciprocal space by means of photoelectron momentum mapping and low energy electron diffraction, the real space adsorption geometries are reconstructed. At monola...
1309.3476v1
2013-09-18
Magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy of Fe$(001)$, Fe$(110)$ slabs and nanoclusters: a detailed local analysis within a tight-binding model
We report tight-binding (TB) calculations of magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy (MAE) of Iron slabs and nanoclusters with a particuler focus on local analysis. After clarifying various concepts and formulations for the determination of MAE, we apply our realistic TB model to the analysis of the magnetic anisotropy of...
1309.4578v1
2013-09-20
Evidence for Orbital Order and its Relation to Superconductivity in FeSe0.4Te0.6
The emergence of nematic electronic states accompanied by a structural phase transition is a recurring theme in many correlated electron materials, including the high-temperature copper oxide- and iron-based superconductors. We provide evidence for nematic electronic states in the iron-chalcogenide superconductor FeSe0...
1309.5210v3
2013-10-09
Impurity states and cooperative magnetic order in Fe-based superconductors
We study impurity bound states and impurity-induced order in the superconducting state of LiFeAs within a realistic five-band model based on the band structure and impurity potentials obtained from density functional theory (DFT). In agreement with recent experiments, we find that Co impurities are too weak produce sub...
1310.2455v1
2013-10-09
Fe KαLine in Hard X-ray Emitting Symbiotic Stars
The 6.4 keV iron emission line is typically created by irradiation of the neutral (or low ionized) iron by a hard X-ray source. Whereas the 6.7 and 7.0 keV emission lines are mainly produced by photoionization and collisional excitation in hot plasma, the 6.4 keV fluorescence line is typically a signature of either ref...
1310.2461v2
2013-10-17
Achievement of practical level critical current densities in PIT Ba1-xKxFe2As2/Ag tapes by conventional cold mechanical deformation
We found that transport critical current density (Jc) of the Ba1-xKxFe2As2/Ag tapes is significantly enhanced by the combination process of cold flat rolling and uniaxial pressing. At 4.2 K, the Jc reaches a high value of 9.1x104 A/cm2 in 4 T, which is almost the practical level of 105 A/cm2. The Jc-H curve shows extre...
1310.4623v1
2013-10-17
Double neutron spin resonances and gap anisotropy in underdoped superconducting NaFe0.985Co0.015As
We use inelastic neutron scattering to show that superconductivity in electron-underdoped NaFe0.985Co0.015As induces a dispersive sharp resonance near Er1 = 3:25 meV and a broad dis- persionless mode at Er2 = 6 meV. However, similar measurements on overdoped superconducting NaFe0:955Co0:045As find only a single sharp r...
1310.4817v1
2013-10-28
Local correlation effects on the s+-- and s++-wave superconductivities mediated by magnetic and orbital fluctuations in the 5-orbital Hubbard model for iron pnictides
We investigate the electronic state and the superconductivity in the 5-orbital Hubbard model for iron pnictides by using the dynamical mean-field theory in conjunction with the Eliashberg equation. The renormalization factor exhibits significant orbital dependence resulting in the large change in the band dispersion as...
1310.7325v2
2013-11-06
Discovery of New Layered Iron Arsenide Superconductor (Ca,Pr)FeAs2
A new iron-based superconductor (Ca,Pr)FeAs2 was discovered. Plate-like crystals of the new phase were obtained and crystal structure was investigated by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The structure was identified as the monoclinic system with space group P21/m, and is composed of two Ca(Pr) planes, anti-fl...
1311.1302v1
2013-11-06
Superconductivity in Ca1-xLaxFeAs2: A Novel 112-Type Iron Pnictide with Arsenic Zigzag Bonds
We report superconductivity in the novel 112-type iron-based compound Ca1-xLaxFeAs2. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis revealed that the compound crystallizes in a monoclinic structure (space group P21), in which Fe2As2 layers alternate with Ca2As2 spacer layers such that monovalent arsenic forms zigzag chains....
1311.1303v1
2013-11-06
Non-conventional superconducting fluctuations in Ba(Fe1-xRhx)2As2 iron-based superconductors
We measured the static uniform spin susceptibility of Ba(Fe$_{1-x}$Rh$_x$)$_2$As$_2$ iron-based superconductors, over a broad range of doping ($0.041\leq x\leq 0.094$) and magnetic fields. At small fields ($H \le$ 1 kOe) we observed, above the transition temperature $T_c$, the occurrence of precursor diamagnetism, whic...
1311.1336v2
2013-11-27
Evolution of the Fermi surface topology in doped 122 iron pnictides
Based on the minimum two-orbital model and the phase diagram recently proposed by Tai et al.\ (Europhys. Lett. \textbf{103}, 67001(2013)) for both electron- and hole-doped 122 iron-based superconducting compounds, we use the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations to perform a comprehensive investigation of the evolution of the...
1311.7047v1
2013-12-09
Memory function approach to in-plane anisotropic resistivity in the antiferromagnetic phase of iron arsenide superconductors
We theoretically examine anisotropy of in-plane resistivity in the striped antiferromagnetic phase of an iron arsenide superconductor by applying a memory function approach to the ordered phase with isotropic nonmagnetic impurity. We find that the anisotropy of the scattering rate is independent of carrier density when...
1312.2322v3
2013-12-17
Superconducting pairing in the spin-density-wave phase of iron pnictides
Some of the iron pnictides show coexisting superconductivity and spin-density-wave order. We study the superconducting pairing instability in the spin-density-wave phase. Assuming that the pairing interaction is due to spin fluctuations, we calculate the effective pairing interactions in the singlet and triplet channel...
1312.4720v2
2013-12-20
Impact of local-moment fluctuations on the magnetic degeneracy of iron arsenide superconductors
We investigate the fate of the orthorhombic stripe-type magnetic state (ordering vectors $\left(\pi,0\right)$/$\left(0,\pi\right)$), observed in most iron-pnictide superconductors, in the presence of localized magnetic moments that tend to form a Neel state (ordering vector $\left(\pi,\pi\right)$). We show that before ...
1312.6176v2
2013-12-24
Controlling Factors of Tc-Dome Structure in 1111-Type Iron Arsenide Superconductors
We investigated the effects of phosphorus substitution on the shape of the Tc(x) dome in 1111-type SmFeAs1-yPyO1-xHx (0 < x < 0.5). Hydride ion substitution of oxide sites (O2- -> H-) exerts a chemical pressure effect, i.e., a structural reduction of the Pn-Fe-Pn angle {\alpha} (Pn = P, As) and also dopes electrons int...
1312.6747v1
2014-01-01
Unfolding the electronic structure of Ca$_{10}$(Fe$_{1-x}$Pt$_x$As)$_{10}$(Pt$_n$As$_8$)
The platinum iron arsenides Ca$_{10}$(Fe$_{1-x}$Pt$_x$As)$_{10}$(Pt$_n$As$_8$) are the first Fe based superconductors with metallic spacer layers. Furthermore they display a large variation in their critical temperatures depending on the amount of Pt in their spacer layers: $(n=3,4)$. To gain more insight into the role...
1401.0298v2
2014-01-01
Analytic theory of Hund's metals: a renormalization group perspective
We study the emergence of quasiparticles in Hund's metals with an SU($M$)$\times$SU($N$)-symmetric Kondo impurity model carrying both spin and orbital degrees of freedom. We show that the coupling of the impurity spin to the conduction electrons can be \emph{ferromagnetic}, notably for hole-doped iron pnictides. We der...
1401.0331v3
2014-01-03
Effect of SDW fluctuations on the specific heat jump in iron pnictides at a superconducting transition
Measurements of the specific heat jump at the onset of superconducting transition in the iron-pnictide compounds revealed strong variation of its magnitude as a function of doping that is peaked near the optimal doping. We show that this behavior is direct manifestation of the coexistence between spin-density-wave and ...
1401.1118v1
2014-01-13
Simulation studies of hadron energy resolution as a function of iron plate thickness at INO-ICAL
We report on a detailed simulation study of the hadron energy resolution as a function of the thickness of the absorber plates for the proposed Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). We compare the hadron resolutions obtained with absorber thicknesses in the range 1.5--8 cm for ...
1401.2779v2
2014-01-15
Strong Coupling of the Iron-Quadrupole and Anion-Dipole Polarizations in Ba(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$)$_2$As$_2$
We use a quantitative convergent beam electron diffraction (CBED) based method to image the valence electron density distribution in Ba(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$)$_2$As$_2$. We show a remarkable increase in both the charge quadrupole of the Fe cations and the charge dipole of the arsenic anions upon Co doping from $x=0$ ($T_c=0...
1401.3706v1
2014-01-18
Quantum rate theory of the trapping of hydrogen and deuterium by a vacancy in iron
We apply quantum rate theory to calculate the transition rates as hydrogen or deuterium atoms escape from a vacancy trap in iron into a neighbouring metastable site. We determine transition rates and corresponding activation energies over a wide range of temperatures covering both the quantum and classically dominated ...
1401.4530v1
2014-02-11
Weak spin interactions in Mott insulating La2O2Fe2OSe2
Identifying and characterizing the parent phases of iron-based superconductors is an important step towards understanding the mechanism for their high temperature superconductivity. We present an investigation into the magnetic interactions in the Mott insulator La2O2Fe2OSe2. This iron oxyselenide adopts a 2-k magnetic...
1402.2684v1
2014-02-17
A High-Tc Mechanism of Iron Pnictide Superconductivity due to Cooperation of Ferro-orbital and Antiferromagnetic Fluctuations
The electronic states and superconductivity in iron pnictides are studied on the basis of the 16 band $d$-$p$ model which includes both the onsite Coulomb interaction between Fe $d$ electrons and the intersite one between Fe $d$ and pnictogen $p$ electrons. The model well accounts for experimentally observed two fluctu...
1402.3908v2
2014-02-19
Coexistence of localized and itinerant magnetism in newly discovered iron-selenide superconductor LiFeO2Fe2Se2
The electronic structure and magnetism of LiFeO$_{2}$Fe$_{2}$Se$_{2}$ are investigated using the first-principle calculations. The ground state is N$\acute{e}$el antiferromagnetic (AFM) Mott insulating state for Fe1 with localized magnetism in LiFeO$_{2}$ layer and striped AFM metallic state for Fe2 with itinerant magn...
1402.4711v1
2014-02-19
The effect of As-Chain layers in CaFeAs$_2$
The new discovered iron-based superconductors have chain-like As layers. These layers generate an additional 3-dimensional hole pocket and cone-like electron pockets. The former is attributed to the Ca $d$ and As1 $p_z$ orbitals and the latter are attributed to the anisotropic Dirac cone, contributed by As1 $p_x$ and $...
1402.4712v1
2014-02-19
Electron-impact excitation of Fe$^{2+}$: a comparison of intermediate coupling frame transformation, Breit-Pauli and Dirac R-matrix calculations
Modeling the spectral emission of low-charge iron group ions enables the diagnostic determination of the local physical conditions of many cool plasma environments such as those found in H II regions, planetary nebulae, active galactic nuclei etc. Electron-impact excitation drives the population of the emitting levels ...
1402.4743v1
2014-02-24
Spectrally-resolved femtosecond reflectivity relaxation dynamics in undoped SDW 122-structure iron based pnictides
We systematically investigate temperature- and spectrally-dependent optical reflectivity dynamics in AAs$_{2}$Fe$_{2}$, (A=Ba, Sr and Eu), iron-based superconductors parent spin-density-wave (SDW) compounds. Two different relaxation processes are identified. The behavior of the slower process, which is strongly sensiti...
1402.5811v1
2014-02-25
Probing Lorentz and CPT Violation in a Magnetized Iron Detector using Atmospheric Neutrinos
We study the sensitivity of the Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) at the India-Based Neutrino Observatory (INO) to Lorentz and CPT violation in the neutrino sector. Its ability to identify the charge of muons in addition to their direction and energy makes ICAL a useful tool in putting constraints on these fundamental symmetries...
1402.6265v1
2014-02-27
Power Law Like Correlation between Condensation Energy and Superconducting Transition Temperatures in Iron Pnictide/Chalcogenide Superconductors: Beyond the BCS Understanding
Superconducting condensation energy $U_0^{int}$ has been determined by integrating the electronic entropy in various iron pnictide/chalcogenide superconducting systems. It is found that $U_0^{int}\propto T_c^n$ with $n$ = 3 to 4, which is in sharp contrast to the simple BCS prediction $U_0^{BCS}=1/2N_F\Delta_s^2$ with ...
1402.6762v1
2014-03-13
Enhancing magnetic stripe order in iron pnictides by RKKY exchange interactions
Recent experimental studies have revealed several unexpected properties of Mn-doped BaFe2As2. These include extension of the stripe-like magnetic (pi,0) phase to high temperatures above a critical Mn concentration only, the presence of diffusive and weakly temperature dependent magnetic (pi,pi) checkerboard scattering,...
1403.3324v1
2014-03-21
Functional renormalization group study of an eight-band model for the iron arsenides
We investigate the superconducting pairing instabilities of eight-band models for the iron arsenides. Using a functional renormalization group treatment, we determine how the critical energy scale for superconductivity depends on the electronic band structure. Most importantly, if we vary the parameters from values cor...
1403.5487v3
2014-03-24
Effect of weak disorder on the phase competition in iron pnictides
We analyze the effect of weak disorder on the competition between antiferromagnetic order and superconductivity in a model for iron-based superconductors. Under the assumption of an approximate particle-hole symmetry we show that conventional $s^{++}$ superconductivity cannot be realized in the case of coexisting magne...
1403.6103v2
2014-04-04
Superconducting states of a J1-J2-K model for iron pnictides
We study the symmetry and strength of the superconducting pairing in a two-orbital t-J1-J2-K model for iron pnictides using the salve boson mean-field theory. We show that the nearest-neighbor biquadratic interaction -K (S_i * S_j)^2 inflences the superconducting pairing phase diagram by promoting the d_{x2-y2} B_{1g} ...
1404.1307v1
2014-04-11
A new library of theoretical stellar spectra with scaled-solar and alpha-enhanced mixtures
Theoretical stellar libraries have been increasingly used to overcome limitations of empirical libraries, e.g. by exploring atmospheric parameter spaces not well represented in the latter. This work presents a new theoretical library which covers 3000 $\leq$ Teff $\leq$ 25000\,K, -0.5 $\leq$ log g $\leq$ 5.5, and 12 ch...
1404.3243v1
2014-04-14
Magnetic correlations and pairing in the 1/5-depleted square lattice Hubbard model
We study the single-orbital Hubbard model on the 1/5-depleted square lattice geometry, which arises in such diverse systems as the spin-gap magnetic insulator CaV4O9 and ordered-vacancy iron selenides, presenting new issues regarding the origin of both magnetic ordering and superconductivity in these materials. We find...
1404.3731v2
2014-04-25
Role of vibrational entropy in the stabilization of the high-temperature phases of iron
The phonon dispersions of the bcc and fcc phases of pure iron ({\alpha}-Fe, {\gamma}-Fe and {\delta}-Fe) at ambient pressure were investigated close to the respective phase transition temperatures. In the open bcc structure the transverse phonons along T1 [{\xi}{\xi}0] and T1 [{\xi}{\xi}2{\xi}] are of particularly low ...
1404.6459v1
2014-05-07
Topological surface states and Andreev bound states in superconducting iron pnictides
The nontrivial topology of the electronic structure of iron pnictides can lead to the appearance of surface states. We study such states in various strip geometries with a focus on the superconducting phase. In the presence of unconventional superconducting pairing with $s_\pm$-wave gap structure, the topological state...
1405.1632v2
2014-05-15
High-pressure single-crystal neutron scattering study of magnetic and Fe vacancy orders in (Tl,Rb)2Fe4Se5 superconductor
The magnetic and iron vacancy orders in superconducting (Tl,Rb)2Fe4Se5 single-crystals are investigated by using a high-pressure neutron diffraction technique. Similar to the temperature effect, the block antiferromagnetic order gradually decreases upon increasing pressure while the Fe vacancy superstructural order rem...
1405.4020v2
2014-05-19
Radiation from an emitter revolving around a magnetized non-rotating black hole
One of the methods of study of black holes in astrophysics is based on broadening of the spectrum of radiation of ionized Iron atoms. The line K$\alpha$ associated with Iron emission at 6.4 keV is very narrow. If such an ion is revolving around a black hole, this line is effectively broadened as a result of the Doppler...
1405.4899v1
2014-05-20
Resistive anisotropy due to spin-fluctuation scattering in the nematic phase of iron pnictides
The large in-plane anisotropy of the resistivity is a hallmark of the nematic state of the iron pnictides. Solving the Boltzmann transport equation, we show that the prominent doping dependence as well as the large values of the anisotropy can be well explained by momentum-dependent spin-fluctuation scattering without ...
1405.5084v3
2014-05-21
Theoretical approach to resonant inelastic x-ray scattering in iron-based superconductors at the energy scale of the superconducting gap
We develop a phenomenological theory to predict the characteristic features of the momentum-dependent scattering amplitude in resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at the energy scale of the superconducting gap in iron-based superconductors. Taking into account all relevant orbital states as well as their specific...
1405.5556v2
2014-05-23
Collective modes in multiband superconductors: Raman scattering in iron selenides
We study Raman scattering in the superconducting state of alkali-intercalated iron selenide materials AxFe2-ySe2 (A=K,Rb,Cs) in which Fermi surface has only electron pockets. Theory predicts that both s-wave and d-wave pairing channels are attractive in this material, and the gap can have either s-wave or d-wave symmet...
1405.6246v1
2014-05-28
A Simulations Study of the Muon Response of the Iron Calorimeter Detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory
The magnetised Iron CALorimeter detector (ICAL), proposed to be built at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), is designed to study atmospheric neutrino oscillations. The ICAL detector is optimized to measure the muon momentum, its direction and charge. A GEANT4-based package has been developed by the INO collabo...
1405.7243v1
2014-06-19
Magnetic form factor analysis on detwinned single crystal of BaFe$_2$As$_2$
We have performed neutron diffraction measurement on a single crystal of parent compound of iron-based superconductor, BaFe$_2$As$_2$ at 12~K. In order to investigate in-plane anisotropy of magnetic form factor in the antiferromagnetic phase, the detwinned single crystal is used in the measurement. The magnetic structu...
1406.4935v1
2014-06-20
Coexistence of Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity in Iron-Based Superconductors
We theoretically investigate the coexistence of antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in the iron-based superconductors by using the mean-field theory for two- and three-orbital models. We find that both the s_{+-}-wave and s_{++}-wave superconductivity can coexist with antiferromagnetism in the two models. On Dirac...
1406.5339v2
2014-06-21
Fermi-surface topology of the iron pnictide LaFe$_2$P$_2$
We report on a comprehensive de Haas--van Alphen (dHvA) study of the iron pnictide LaFe$_2$P$_2$. Our extensive density-functional band-structure calculations can well explain the measured angular-dependent dHvA frequencies. As salient feature, we observe only one quasi-two-dimensional Fermi-surface sheet, i.e., a hole...
1406.5642v1