Widespread orthorhombic fluctuations in the family of superconductors
Abstract
We report comprehensive pair distribution function measurements of the hole-doped iron-based superconductor system Sr$$_{1-x}$$Na$$_{x}$$Fe$$_2$$As$$_2$$. Structural refinements performed as a function of temperature and length scale reveal orthorhombic distortions of the instantaneous local structure across a large region of the phase diagram possessing average tetragonal symmetry, indicative of fluctuating nematicity. These nematic fluctuations are present up to high doping levels ($$x \gtrsim 0.48$$, near optimal superconductivity) and high temperatures (above room temperature for $x = 0$, decreasing to 150~K for $x = 0.48$), with a typical length scale of 1--3~nm. This work highlights the ubiquity of nematic fluctuations in a representative iron-based superconductor and provides important details about the evolution of these fluctuations across the phase diagram.
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1488566
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1479452; OSTI ID: 1484107; OSTI ID: 1492129
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; AC02-05CH11231; AC05-00OR22725; AC02-05-CH11231; SC0012704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 98; 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
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Frandsen, Benjamin A., Taddei, Keith M., Bugaris, Daniel E., Stadel, Ryan, Yi, Ming, Acharya, Arani, Osborn, Raymond, Rosenkranz, Stephan, Chmaissem, Omar, and Birgeneau, Robert J. Widespread orthorhombic fluctuations in the (Sr,Na)Fe2As2 family of superconductors. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/physRevB.98.180505.
Frandsen, Benjamin A., Taddei, Keith M., Bugaris, Daniel E., Stadel, Ryan, Yi, Ming, Acharya, Arani, Osborn, Raymond, Rosenkranz, Stephan, Chmaissem, Omar, & Birgeneau, Robert J. Widespread orthorhombic fluctuations in the (Sr,Na)Fe2As2 family of superconductors. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physRevB.98.180505
Frandsen, Benjamin A., Taddei, Keith M., Bugaris, Daniel E., Stadel, Ryan, Yi, Ming, Acharya, Arani, Osborn, Raymond, Rosenkranz, Stephan, Chmaissem, Omar, and Birgeneau, Robert J. Mon .
"Widespread orthorhombic fluctuations in the (Sr,Na)Fe2As2 family of superconductors". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physRevB.98.180505. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1488566.
@article{osti_1488566,
title = {Widespread orthorhombic fluctuations in the (Sr,Na)Fe2As2 family of superconductors},
author = {Frandsen, Benjamin A. and Taddei, Keith M. and Bugaris, Daniel E. and Stadel, Ryan and Yi, Ming and Acharya, Arani and Osborn, Raymond and Rosenkranz, Stephan and Chmaissem, Omar and Birgeneau, Robert J.},
abstractNote = {We report comprehensive pair distribution function measurements of the hole-doped iron-based superconductor system Sr$_{1-x}$Na$_{x}$Fe$_2$As$_2$. Structural refinements performed as a function of temperature and length scale reveal orthorhombic distortions of the instantaneous local structure across a large region of the phase diagram possessing average tetragonal symmetry, indicative of fluctuating nematicity. These nematic fluctuations are present up to high doping levels ($x \gtrsim 0.48$, near optimal superconductivity) and high temperatures (above room temperature for $x = 0$, decreasing to 150~K for $x = 0.48$), with a typical length scale of 1--3~nm. This work highlights the ubiquity of nematic fluctuations in a representative iron-based superconductor and provides important details about the evolution of these fluctuations across the phase diagram.},
doi = {10.1103/physRevB.98.180505},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 18,
volume = 98,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {11}
}
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