Appearance of superconductivity at the vacancy order-disorder boundary in
Abstract
The role of phase separation and the effect of Fe-vacancy ordering in the emergence of superconductivity in alkali metal doped iron selenides A(x)Fe(2-y)Se(2) (A = K, Rb, Cs) is explored. High energy x-ray diffraction and Monte Carlo simulation were used to investigate the crystal structure of quenched superconducting (SC) and as-grown nonsuperconducting (NSC) KxFe2-ySe2 single crystals. The coexistence of superlattice structures with the in-plane root 2 x root 2 K-vacancy ordering and the root 5 x root 5 Fe-vacancy ordering were observed in both the SC and NSC crystals alongside the I4/mmm Fe-vacancy-free phase. Moreover, in the SC crystals, an Fevacancy-disordered phase is additionally proposed to be present. Monte Carlo simulations suggest that it appears at the boundary between the I4/mmm vacancy-free phase and the I4/m vacancy-ordered phases (root 5 x root 5). The vacancy-disordered phase is nonmagnetic and is most likely the host of superconductivity.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC). Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22); USDOE; USDOE Office of Science - Office of Basic Energy Sciences - Scientific User Facilities Division
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1471306
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1437075; OSTI ID: 1473670
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-18-28713
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950; PRBMDO
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396; FG02-01ER45927; AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 97; Journal Issue: 18; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Citation Formats
Duan, Chunruo, Yang, Junjie, Ren, Yang, Thomas, Sean Michael, and Louca, Despina. Appearance of superconductivity at the vacancy order-disorder boundary in KxFe2-ySe2. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.184502.
Duan, Chunruo, Yang, Junjie, Ren, Yang, Thomas, Sean Michael, & Louca, Despina. Appearance of superconductivity at the vacancy order-disorder boundary in KxFe2-ySe2. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.184502
Duan, Chunruo, Yang, Junjie, Ren, Yang, Thomas, Sean Michael, and Louca, Despina. Mon .
"Appearance of superconductivity at the vacancy order-disorder boundary in KxFe2-ySe2". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.184502. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1471306.
@article{osti_1471306,
title = {Appearance of superconductivity at the vacancy order-disorder boundary in KxFe2-ySe2},
author = {Duan, Chunruo and Yang, Junjie and Ren, Yang and Thomas, Sean Michael and Louca, Despina},
abstractNote = {The role of phase separation and the effect of Fe-vacancy ordering in the emergence of superconductivity in alkali metal doped iron selenides A(x)Fe(2-y)Se(2) (A = K, Rb, Cs) is explored. High energy x-ray diffraction and Monte Carlo simulation were used to investigate the crystal structure of quenched superconducting (SC) and as-grown nonsuperconducting (NSC) KxFe2-ySe2 single crystals. The coexistence of superlattice structures with the in-plane root 2 x root 2 K-vacancy ordering and the root 5 x root 5 Fe-vacancy ordering were observed in both the SC and NSC crystals alongside the I4/mmm Fe-vacancy-free phase. Moreover, in the SC crystals, an Fevacancy-disordered phase is additionally proposed to be present. Monte Carlo simulations suggest that it appears at the boundary between the I4/mmm vacancy-free phase and the I4/m vacancy-ordered phases (root 5 x root 5). The vacancy-disordered phase is nonmagnetic and is most likely the host of superconductivity.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.97.184502},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 18,
volume = 97,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 14 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon May 14 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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