Random strain induced correlations in materials with intertwined nematic and magnetic orders

Meese, W. Joe; Vojta, Thomas; Fernandes, Rafael M.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.106.115134

Random strain induced correlations in materials with intertwined nematic and magnetic orders

Journal Article · Mon Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Physical Review. B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.106.115134· OSTI ID:1961326

^[1]; ^[2]; Fernandes, Rafael M. ^[3]

Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States); University of Minnesota
Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO (United States)
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)

Electronic nematicity is rarely observed as an isolated instability of a correlated electron system. Instead, in iron pnictides and in certain cuprates and heavy-fermion materials, nematicity is intertwined with an underlying spin-stripe or charge-stripe state. As a result, random strain, ubiquitous in any real crystal, creates both random-field disorder for the nematic degrees of freedom and random-bond disorder for the spin or charge ones. Here, we put forward an Ashkin-Teller model with random Baxter fields to capture the dual role of random strain in nematic systems for which nematicity is a composite order arising from a stripe state. Using Monte Carlo to simulate this random Baxter-field model, we find not only the expected break-up of the system into nematic domains, but also the emergence of nontrivial disorder-promoted magnetic correlations. Such correlations enhance and tie up the fluctuations associated with the two degenerate magnetic stripe states from which nematicity arises, leaving characteristic signatures in the spatial profile of the magnetic domains, in the configurational space of the spin variables, and in the magnetic noise spectrum. We discuss possible experimental manifestations of these effects in iron-pnictide superconductors. Furthermore, our work establishes the random Baxter-field model as a more complete alternative to the random-field Ising model to describe complex electronic nematic phenomena in the presence of disorder.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0020045

OSTI ID:: 1961326

Journal Information:: Physical Review. B, Journal Name: Physical Review. B Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 106; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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