Infrared Study of the Spin Reorientation Transition and Its Reversal in the Superconducting State in Underdoped Ba1-xKxFe2As2

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Authors

MALLETT B.P.P. MARŠÍK Přemysl YAZDI-RIZI M. WOLF Th. BOHMER A.E. HARDY F. MEINGAST C. MUNZAR Dominik BERNHARD Christian

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
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Citation
Web http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.027003
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.027003
Field Solid matter physics and magnetism
Keywords Iron-based superconductors
Description With infrared spectroscopy we investigated the spin-reorientation transition from an orthorhombic antiferromagnetic (o-AF) to a tetragonal AF (t-AF) phase and the reentrance of the o-AF phase in the superconducting state of underdoped Ba1-xKxFe2As2. In agreement with the predicted transition from a single-Q to a double-Q AF structure, we found that a distinct spin density wave develops in the t-AF phase. The pair breaking peak of this spin density wave acquires much more low-energy spectral weight than the one in the o-AF state which indicates that it competes more strongly with superconductivity. We also observed additional phonon modes in the t-AF phase which likely arise from a Brillouin-zone folding that is induced by the double-Q magnetic structure with two Fe sublattices exhibiting different magnitudes of the magnetic moment.
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