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Title: Reorientation of the diagonal double-stripe spin structure at Fe1+yTe bulk and thin-film surfaces

Abstract

Here, establishing the relation between ubiquitous antiferromagnetism in the parent compounds of unconventional superconductors and their superconducting phase is important for understanding the complex physics in these materials. Going from bulk systems to thin films additionally affects their phase diagram. For Fe1+yTe, the parent compound of Fe1+ySe1$-x$Tex superconductors, bulk-sensitive neutron diffraction revealed an in-plane oriented diagonal double-stripe antiferromagnetic spin structure. Here we show by spin-resolved scanning tunnelling microscopy that the spin direction at the surfaces of bulk Fe1+yTe and thin films grown on the topological insulator Bi2Te3 is canted out of the high-symmetry directions of the surface unit cell resulting in a perpendicular spin component, keeping the diagonal double-stripe order. As the magnetism of the Fe d-orbitals is intertwined with the superconducting pairing in Fe-based materials, our results imply that the superconducting properties at the surface of the related superconducting compounds might be different from the bulk.

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  1. Hamburg Univ., Hamburg (Germany)
  2. Aarhus Univ., Aarhus (Denmark)
  3. Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA (United States)
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Research Org.:
Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1345976
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0014208; WI 3097/2
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; magnetic properties and materials; superconducting properties and materials; surfaces, interfaces and thin films

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Hanke, Torben, Singh, Udai Raj, Cornils, Lasse, Manna, Sujit, Kamlapure, Anand, Bremholm, Martin, Hedegaard, Ellen Marie Jensen, Iversen, Bo Brummerstedt, Hofmann, Philip, Hu, Jin, Mao, Zhiqiang, Wiebe, Jens, and Wiesendanger, Roland. Reorientation of the diagonal double-stripe spin structure at Fe1+yTe bulk and thin-film surfaces. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms13939.
Hanke, Torben, Singh, Udai Raj, Cornils, Lasse, Manna, Sujit, Kamlapure, Anand, Bremholm, Martin, Hedegaard, Ellen Marie Jensen, Iversen, Bo Brummerstedt, Hofmann, Philip, Hu, Jin, Mao, Zhiqiang, Wiebe, Jens, & Wiesendanger, Roland. Reorientation of the diagonal double-stripe spin structure at Fe1+yTe bulk and thin-film surfaces. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13939
Hanke, Torben, Singh, Udai Raj, Cornils, Lasse, Manna, Sujit, Kamlapure, Anand, Bremholm, Martin, Hedegaard, Ellen Marie Jensen, Iversen, Bo Brummerstedt, Hofmann, Philip, Hu, Jin, Mao, Zhiqiang, Wiebe, Jens, and Wiesendanger, Roland. Fri . "Reorientation of the diagonal double-stripe spin structure at Fe1+yTe bulk and thin-film surfaces". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13939. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1345976.
@article{osti_1345976,
title = {Reorientation of the diagonal double-stripe spin structure at Fe1+yTe bulk and thin-film surfaces},
author = {Hanke, Torben and Singh, Udai Raj and Cornils, Lasse and Manna, Sujit and Kamlapure, Anand and Bremholm, Martin and Hedegaard, Ellen Marie Jensen and Iversen, Bo Brummerstedt and Hofmann, Philip and Hu, Jin and Mao, Zhiqiang and Wiebe, Jens and Wiesendanger, Roland},
abstractNote = {Here, establishing the relation between ubiquitous antiferromagnetism in the parent compounds of unconventional superconductors and their superconducting phase is important for understanding the complex physics in these materials. Going from bulk systems to thin films additionally affects their phase diagram. For Fe1+yTe, the parent compound of Fe1+ySe1$-x$Tex superconductors, bulk-sensitive neutron diffraction revealed an in-plane oriented diagonal double-stripe antiferromagnetic spin structure. Here we show by spin-resolved scanning tunnelling microscopy that the spin direction at the surfaces of bulk Fe1+yTe and thin films grown on the topological insulator Bi2Te3 is canted out of the high-symmetry directions of the surface unit cell resulting in a perpendicular spin component, keeping the diagonal double-stripe order. As the magnetism of the Fe d-orbitals is intertwined with the superconducting pairing in Fe-based materials, our results imply that the superconducting properties at the surface of the related superconducting compounds might be different from the bulk.},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms13939},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = ,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 06 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Fri Jan 06 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}

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