Orbital Selectivity Enhanced by Nematic Order in FeSe

Yu, Rong; Zhu, Jian -Xin; Si, Qimiao

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.227003

Orbital Selectivity Enhanced by Nematic Order in FeSe

Journal Article · Thu Nov 29 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.227003· OSTI ID:1489954

Yu, Rong ^[1]; ^[2]; Si, Qimiao ^[3]

Renmin University of China, Beijing (China)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)

Motivated by the recent low-temperature experiments on bulk FeSe, we study the electron correlation effects in a multiorbital model for this compound in the nematic phase using the U(1) slave-spin theory. Here, we find that a finite nematic order helps to stabilize an orbital selective Mott phase. Moreover, we propose that when the d- and s-wave bond nematic orders are combined with the ferro-orbital order, there exists a surprisingly large orbital selectivity between the xz and yz orbitals even though the associated band splitting is relatively small. Lastly, our results explain the seemingly unusual observation of strong orbital selectivity in the nematic phase of FeSe, uncover new clues on the nature of the nematic order, and set the stage to elucidate the interplay between superconductivity and nematicity in iron-based superconductors.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001; SC0018197

OSTI ID:: 1489954

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1483919

Report Number(s):: LA-UR--18-22338; LA-UR--18-24705

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 22 Vol. 121; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (75)

Using gap symmetry and structure to reveal the pairing mechanism in Fe-based superconductors Hirschfeld, Peter J. Comptes Rendus Physique, Vol. 17, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crhy.2015.10.002	journal	January 2016
Iron-Based Layered Superconductor La[O _1- _x F _x ]FeAs ( x = 0.05−0.12) with T _c = 26 K Kamihara, Yoichi; Watanabe, Takumi; Hirano, Masahiro Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 130, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja800073m	journal	March 2008
High-temperature superconductivity in iron pnictides and chalcogenides Si, Qimiao; Yu, Rong; Abrahams, Elihu Nature Reviews Materials, Vol. 1, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1038/natrevmats.2016.17	journal	March 2016
Orbital-selective metal–insulator transition and gap formation above TC in superconducting Rb1−xFe2−ySe2 Wang, Zhe; Schmidt, M.; Fischer, J. Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4202	journal	January 2014
Observation of universal strong orbital-dependent correlation effects in iron chalcogenides Yi, M.; Liu, Z-K; Zhang, Y. Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8777	journal	July 2015
Electronic correlations in the iron pnictides Qazilbash, M. M.; Hamlin, J. J.; Baumbach, R. E. Nature Physics, Vol. 5, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1343	journal	July 2009
Magnetism and charge dynamics in iron pnictides Yin, Z. P.; Haule, K.; Kotliar, G. Nature Physics, Vol. 7, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1923	journal	February 2011
Role of the orbital degree of freedom in iron-based superconductors Yi, Ming; Zhang, Yan; Shen, Zhi-Xun npj Quantum Materials, Vol. 2, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-017-0059-y	journal	October 2017
Imaging orbital-selective quasiparticles in the Hund’s metal state of FeSe Kostin, A.; Sprau, P. O.; Kreisel, A. Nature Materials, Vol. 17, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-018-0151-0	journal	September 2018
Iron pnictides as a new setting for quantum criticality Dai, J.; Si, Q.; Zhu, J. -X. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 106, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0900886106	journal	March 2009
The puzzle of high temperature superconductivity in layered iron pnictides and chalcogenides Johnston, David C. Advances in Physics, Vol. 59, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1080/00018732.2010.513480	journal	October 2010
Interface-Induced High-Temperature Superconductivity in Single Unit-Cell FeSe Films on SrTiO ₃ Wang, Qing-Yan; Li, Zhi; Zhang, Wen-Hao Chinese Physics Letters, Vol. 29, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1088/0256-307X/29/3/037402	journal	March 2012
The form and origin of orbital ordering in the electronic nematic phase of iron-based superconductors Su, Yuehua; Liao, Haijun; Li, Tao Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 27, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/27/10/105702	journal	February 2015
Near-degeneracy of several pairing channels in multiorbital models for the Fe pnictides Graser, S.; Maier, T. A.; Hirschfeld, P. J. New Journal of Physics, Vol. 11, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/11/2/025016	journal	February 2009
Coherence–incoherence crossover in the normal state of iron oxypnictides and importance of Hund's rule coupling Haule, K.; Kotliar, G. New Journal of Physics, Vol. 11, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/11/2/025021	journal	February 2009
Magnetic structure of V 2 O 3 in the insulating phase Castellani, C.; Natoli, C. R.; Ranninger, J. Physical Review B, Vol. 18, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.18.4945	journal	November 1978
Slave-rotor mean-field theories of strongly correlated systems and the Mott transition in finite dimensions Florens, Serge; Georges, Antoine Physical Review B, Vol. 70, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.70.035114	journal	July 2004
Theory of electron nematic order in LaFeAsO Fang, Chen; Yao, Hong; Tsai, Wei-Feng Physical Review B, Vol. 77, Issue 22 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.77.224509	journal	June 2008
Ising and spin orders in the iron-based superconductors Xu, Cenke; Müller, Markus; Sachdev, Subir Physical Review B, Vol. 78, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.78.020501	journal	July 2008
Metal-insulator phase diagram and orbital selectivity in three-orbital models with rotationally invariant Hund coupling Werner, Philipp; Gull, Emanuel; Millis, Andrew J. Physical Review B, Vol. 79, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.79.115119	journal	March 2009
Fermi-liquid, non-Fermi-liquid, and Mott phases in iron pnictides and cuprates Ishida, Hiroshi; Liebsch, Ansgar Physical Review B, Vol. 81, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.81.054513	journal	February 2010
Theoretical evidence for strong correlations and incoherent metallic state in FeSe Aichhorn, Markus; Biermann, Silke; Miyake, Takashi Physical Review B, Vol. 82, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.064504	journal	August 2010
Mott transition in multiorbital models for iron pnictides Yu, Rong; Si, Qimiao Physical Review B, Vol. 84, Issue 23 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.235115	journal	December 2011
Spectral density in a nematic state of iron pnictides Daghofer, Maria; Nicholson, Andrew; Moreo, Adriana Physical Review B, Vol. 85, Issue 18 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.184515	journal	May 2012
U ( 1 ) slave-spin theory and its application to Mott transition in a multiorbital model for iron pnictides Yu, Rong; Si, Qimiao Physical Review B, Vol. 86, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.86.085104	journal	August 2012
Role of the 245 phase in alkaline iron selenide superconductors revealed by high-pressure studies Gao, Peiwen; Yu, Rong; Sun, Liling Physical Review B, Vol. 89, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.89.094514	journal	March 2014
Mott behavior in K x Fe 2 − y Se 2 superconductors studied by pump-probe spectroscopy Li, Wei; Zhang, Chunfeng; Liu, Shenghua Physical Review B, Vol. 89, Issue 13 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.89.134515	journal	April 2014
Strong and nonmonotonic temperature dependence of Hall coefficient in superconducting K x Fe 2 − y Se 2 single crystals Ding, Xiaxin; Pan, Yiming; Yang, Huan Physical Review B, Vol. 89, Issue 22 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.89.224515	journal	June 2014
Emergence of the nematic electronic state in FeSe Watson, M. D.; Kim, T. K.; Haghighirad, A. A. Physical Review B, Vol. 91, Issue 15 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.155106	journal	April 2015
Observation of two distinct d x z / d y z band splittings in FeSe Zhang, P.; Qian, T.; Richard, P. Physical Review B, Vol. 91, Issue 21 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.214503	journal	June 2015
Mott localization in a pure stripe antiferromagnet Rb 1 − δ Fe 1.5 − σ S 2 Wang, Meng; Yi, Ming; Cao, Huibo Physical Review B, Vol. 92, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.121101	journal	September 2015
Quantum criticality in the 122 iron pnictide superconductors emerging from orbital-selective Mottness Das, S. D.; Laad, M. S.; Craco, L. Physical Review B, Vol. 92, Issue 15 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.155112	journal	October 2015
Experimental observation of incoherent-coherent crossover and orbital-dependent band renormalization in iron chalcogenide superconductors Liu, Z. K.; Yi, M.; Zhang, Y. Physical Review B, Vol. 92, Issue 23 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.235138	journal	December 2015
Temperature-induced orbital selective localization and coherent-incoherent crossover in single-layer FeSe / Nb : BaTiO 3 / KTaO 3 Pu, Y. J.; Huang, Z. C.; Xu, H. C. Physical Review B, Vol. 94, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.115146	journal	September 2016
Distinctive orbital anisotropy observed in the nematic state of a FeSe thin film Zhang, Y.; Yi, M.; Liu, Z. -K. Physical Review B, Vol. 94, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.115153	journal	September 2016
Evidence for unidirectional nematic bond ordering in FeSe Watson, M. D.; Kim, T. K.; Rhodes, L. C. Physical Review B, Vol. 94, Issue 20 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.201107	journal	November 2016
Nematicity at the Hund's metal crossover in iron superconductors Fanfarillo, L.; Giovannetti, G.; Capone, M. Physical Review B, Vol. 95, Issue 14 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.144511	journal	April 2017
Optical anisotropy in the electronic nematic phase of FeSe Chinotti, M.; Pal, A.; Degiorgi, L. Physical Review B, Vol. 96, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.121112	journal	September 2017
Orbital-selective Mott phase in multiorbital models for iron pnictides and chalcogenides Yu, Rong; Si, Qimiao Physical Review B, Vol. 96, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.125110	journal	September 2017
Analytical slave-spin mean-field approach to orbital selective Mott insulators Komijani, Yashar; Kotliar, Gabriel Physical Review B, Vol. 96, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.125111	journal	September 2017
Strong Correlations and Magnetic Frustration in the High T c Iron Pnictides Si, Qimiao; Abrahams, Elihu Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.076401	journal	August 2008
Orbital-Selective Mott Transition out of Band Degeneracy Lifting de’ Medici, Luca; Hassan, S. R.; Capone, Massimo Physical Review Letters, Vol. 102, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.126401	journal	March 2009
Observation of Temperature-Induced Crossover to an Orbital-Selective Mott Phase in A x Fe 2 − y Se 2 ( A = K , Rb) Superconductors Yi, M.; Lu, D. H.; Yu, R. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.067003	journal	February 2013
Orbital-Selective Mott Phase in Multiorbital Models for Alkaline Iron Selenides K 1 − x Fe 2 − y Se 2 Yu, Rong; Si, Qimiao Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110, Issue 14 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.146402	journal	April 2013
Exotic Magnetic Order in the Orbital-Selective Mott Regime of Multiorbital Systems Rincón, Julián; Moreo, Adriana; Alvarez, Gonzalo Physical Review Letters, Vol. 112, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.106405	journal	March 2014
Selective Mott Physics as a Key to Iron Superconductors de’ Medici, Luca; Giovannetti, Gianluca; Capone, Massimo Physical Review Letters, Vol. 112, Issue 17 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.177001	journal	April 2014
Antiferroquadrupolar and Ising-Nematic Orders of a Frustrated Bilinear-Biquadratic Heisenberg Model and Implications for the Magnetism of FeSe Yu, Rong; Si, Qimiao Physical Review Letters, Vol. 115, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.116401	journal	September 2015
Bandwidth and Electron Correlation-Tuned Superconductivity in Rb 0.8 Fe 2 ( Se 1 − z S z ) 2 Yi, M.; Wang, Meng; Kemper, A. F. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 115, Issue 25 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.256403	journal	December 2015
New Functional Integral Approach to Strongly Correlated Fermi Systems: The Gutzwiller Approximation as a Saddle Point Kotliar, Gabriel; Ruckenstein, Andrei E. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 57, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.1362	journal	September 1986
Ising transition in frustrated Heisenberg models Chandra, P.; Coleman, P.; Larkin, A. I. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 64, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.88	journal	January 1990
Orbital-Selective Mott Transitions in the Degenerate Hubbard Model Koga, Akihisa; Kawakami, Norio; Rice, T. M. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 92, Issue 21 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.216402	journal	May 2004
High-Spin to Low-Spin and Orbital Polarization Transitions in Multiorbital Mott Systems Werner, Philipp; Millis, Andrew J. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 99, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.126405	journal	September 2007
Orbital Origin of Extremely Anisotropic Superconducting Gap in Nematic Phase of FeSe Superconductor Liu, Defa; Li, Cong; Huang, Jianwei Physical Review X, Vol. 8, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.8.031033	journal	August 2018
Antiferromagnetic order and spin dynamics in iron-based superconductors Dai, Pengcheng Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 87, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.87.855	journal	August 2015
The Electron-Pairing Mechanism of Iron-Based Superconductors Wang, F.; Lee, D. -H. Science, Vol. 332, Issue 6026 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1200182	journal	April 2011
Discovery of orbital-selective Cooper pairing in FeSe Sprau, P. O.; Kostin, A.; Kreisel, A. Science, Vol. 357, Issue 6346 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal1575	journal	July 2017
Orbital-selective Mott-insulator transition in Ca 2 - x Sr x RuO 4 Anisimov, V. I.; Nekrasov, I. A.; Kondakov, D. E. The European Physical Journal B, Vol. 25, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e20020021	journal	February 2002
High-spin to low-spin and orbital polarization transitions in multiorbital Mott systems Werner, Philipp; Millis, Andrew J. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0704.0057	text	January 2007
Strong Correlations and Magnetic Frustration in the High Tc Iron Pnictides Si, Qimiao; Abrahams, Elihu arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0804.2480	text	January 2008
Theoretical evidence for strong correlations and incoherent metallic state in FeSe Aichhorn, Markus; Biermann, Silke; Miyake, Takashi arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1003.1286	text	January 2010
Interface induced high temperature superconductivity in single unit-cell FeSe films on SrTiO3 Wang, Qing-Yan; Li, Zhi; Zhang, Wen-Hao arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1201.5694	text	January 2012
Spectral density in a nematic state of iron pnictides Daghofer, Maria; Nicholson, Andrew; Moreo, Adriana arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1202.3656	text	January 2012
U(1) Slave-spin theory and its application to Mott transition in a multi-orbital model for iron pnictides Yu, Rong; Si, Qimiao arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1202.6115	text	January 2012
Exotic magnetic order in the orbital-selective Mott regime of multiorbital systems Rincon, Julian; Moreo, Adriana; Alvarez, Gonzalo arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1402.1689	text	January 2014
Strong and nonmonotonic temperature dependence of Hall coefficient in superconducting K$_x$Fe$_{2-y}$Se$_2$ single crystals Ding, Xiaxin; Pan, Yiming; Yang, Huan arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1407.1455	text	January 2014
Quantum Criticality in the 122 Iron Pnictide Superconductors Emerging from Orbital-Selective Mottness Das, S. D.; Laad, M. S.; Craco, L. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1412.1034	text	January 2014
Antiferroquadrupolar and Ising-Nematic Orders of a Frustrated Bilinear-Biquadratic Heisenberg Model and Implications for the Magnetism of FeSe Yu, Rong; Si, Qimiao arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1501.05926	text	January 2015
Emergence of the nematic electronic state in FeSe Watson, M. D.; Kim, T. K.; Haghighirad, A. A. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1502.02917	text	January 2015
Antiferromagnetic order and spin dynamics in iron-based superconductors Dai, Pengcheng arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1503.02340	text	January 2015
Experimental Observation of Incoherent-Coherent Crossover and Orbital Dependent Band Renormalization in Iron Chalcogenide Superconductors Liu, Zhongkai; Yi, Ming; Zhang, Yan arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1505.03074	text	January 2015
Using Gap Symmetry and Structure to Reveal the Pairing Mechanism in Fe-based Superconductors Hirschfeld, P. J. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1510.01386	text	January 2015
High Temperature Superconductivity in Iron Pnictides and Chalcogenides Si, Qimiao; Yu, Rong; Abrahams, Elihu arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1604.03566	text	January 2016
Temperature-induced band selective localization and coherent-incoherent crossover in single-layer FeSe/Nb:BaTiO3 /KTaO3 Pu, Y. J.; Huang, Z. C.; Xu, H. C. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1604.06526	text	January 2016
Imaging Orbital-selective Quasiparticles in the Hund's Metal State of FeSe Kostin, Andrey; Sprau, Peter O.; Kreisel, Andreas arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1802.02266	text	January 2018
Slave-rotor mean field theories of strongly correlated systems and the Mott transition in finite dimensions Florens, Serge; Georges, Antoine arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0404334	text	January 2004

Cited By (8)

Local orbital degeneracy lifting as a precursor to an orbital-selective Peierls transition Bozin, E. S.; Yin, W. G.; Koch, R. J. Nature Communications, Vol. 10, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11372-w	journal	August 2019
Imaging orbital-selective quasiparticles in the Hund’s metal state of FeSe Kostin, A.; Sprau, P. O.; Kreisel, A. Nature Materials, Vol. 17, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-018-0151-0	journal	September 2018
Anisotropic spin fluctuations in detwinned FeSe Chen, Tong; Chen, Youzhe; Kreisel, Andreas Nature Materials, Vol. 18, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0369-5	journal	May 2019
Room temperature local nematicity in FeSe superconductor Koch, R. J.; Konstantinova, T.; Abeykoon, M. Physical Review B, Vol. 100, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.100.020501	journal	July 2019
Itinerant approach to magnetic neutron scattering of FeSe: Effect of orbital selectivity Kreisel, Andreas; Andersen, Brian M.; Hirschfeld, P. J. Physical Review B, Vol. 98, Issue 21 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.98.214518	journal	December 2018
Nematic Energy Scale and the Missing Electron Pocket in FeSe Yi, M.; Pfau, H.; Zhang, Y. Physical Review X, Vol. 9, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.9.041049	journal	December 2019
Imaging Orbital-selective Quasiparticles in the Hund's Metal State of FeSe Kostin, Andrey; Sprau, Peter O.; Kreisel, Andreas arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1802.02266	text	January 2018
Anisotropic spin fluctuations in detwinned FeSe Chen, Tong; Chen, Youzhe; Kreisel, Andreas arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1905.08399	text	January 2019

Similar Records

Distinctive orbital anisotropy observed in the nematic state of a FeSe thin film

Journal Article · Sun Sep 25 20:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review B · OSTI ID:1377500

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Material Science

Orbital Selectivity Enhanced by Nematic Order in FeSe

Citation Formats

References (75)

Cited By (8)

Similar Records

Related Subjects