Spin dynamics in NaFeAs and NaFe0.53Cu0.47As probed by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering
Abstract
The parent compounds of iron-based superconductors are magnetically ordered bad metals, with superconductivity appearing near a putative magnetic quantum critical point. The presence of both Hubbard repulsion and Hund’s coupling leads to rich physics in these multiorbital systems, and motivated descriptions of magnetism in terms of itinerant electrons or localized spins. The NaFe1–xCuxAs series consists of magnetically ordered bad metal (x = 0), superconducting (x ≈ 0.02) and magnetically ordered semiconducing/insulating (x ≈ 0.5) phases, providing a platform to investigate the connection between superconductivity, magnetism and electronic correlations. Here we use x-ray absorption spectroscopy and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering to study the valence state of Fe and spin dynamics in two NaFe1–xCuxAs compounds (x = 0 and 0.47). We find that magnetism in both compounds arises from Fe2+ atoms, and exhibits underdamped dispersive spin waves in their respective ordered states. The dispersion of spin excitations in NaFe0.53Cu0.47As is consistent with being quasi-one-dimensional. Compared to NaFeAs, the band top of spin waves in NaFe0.53Cu0.47As is slightly softened with significantly more spectral weight of the spin excitations. Here, our results indicate the spin dynamics in NaFe0.53Cu0.47As arise from localized magnetic moments and suggest the iron-based superconductors are proximate to a correlated insulatingmore »
- Authors:
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- Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou (China)
- Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)
- Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland)
- Beijing Normal Univ. (China); Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland)
- Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., Xian (China)
- Renmin Univ. of China, Beijing (China)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; Robert A. Welch Foundation; SNSF Research; National Science Foundation of China; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Univ. and the Research Funds of Remnin Univ. of China
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1773810
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1877038
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012311; C-1839; AC02-05CH11231; 200021L 141325; 11374361; 11674392; 18XNLG24
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 103; Journal Issue: 7; 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; Antiferromagnets; Single crystal materials; Strongly correlated systems; Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering; X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Citation Formats
Song, Yu, Wang, Weiyi, Paris, Eugenio, Lu, Xingye, Pelliciari, Jonathan, Tseng, Yi, Huang, Yaobo, McNally, Daniel, Dantz, Marcus, Cao, Chongde, Yu, Rong, Birgeneau, Robert J., Schmitt, Thorsten, and Dai, Pengcheng. Spin dynamics in NaFeAs and NaFe0.53Cu0.47As probed by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.103.075112.
Song, Yu, Wang, Weiyi, Paris, Eugenio, Lu, Xingye, Pelliciari, Jonathan, Tseng, Yi, Huang, Yaobo, McNally, Daniel, Dantz, Marcus, Cao, Chongde, Yu, Rong, Birgeneau, Robert J., Schmitt, Thorsten, & Dai, Pengcheng. Spin dynamics in NaFeAs and NaFe0.53Cu0.47As probed by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.103.075112
Song, Yu, Wang, Weiyi, Paris, Eugenio, Lu, Xingye, Pelliciari, Jonathan, Tseng, Yi, Huang, Yaobo, McNally, Daniel, Dantz, Marcus, Cao, Chongde, Yu, Rong, Birgeneau, Robert J., Schmitt, Thorsten, and Dai, Pengcheng. Thu .
"Spin dynamics in NaFeAs and NaFe0.53Cu0.47As probed by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.103.075112. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1773810.
@article{osti_1773810,
title = {Spin dynamics in NaFeAs and NaFe0.53Cu0.47As probed by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering},
author = {Song, Yu and Wang, Weiyi and Paris, Eugenio and Lu, Xingye and Pelliciari, Jonathan and Tseng, Yi and Huang, Yaobo and McNally, Daniel and Dantz, Marcus and Cao, Chongde and Yu, Rong and Birgeneau, Robert J. and Schmitt, Thorsten and Dai, Pengcheng},
abstractNote = {The parent compounds of iron-based superconductors are magnetically ordered bad metals, with superconductivity appearing near a putative magnetic quantum critical point. The presence of both Hubbard repulsion and Hund’s coupling leads to rich physics in these multiorbital systems, and motivated descriptions of magnetism in terms of itinerant electrons or localized spins. The NaFe1–xCuxAs series consists of magnetically ordered bad metal (x = 0), superconducting (x ≈ 0.02) and magnetically ordered semiconducing/insulating (x ≈ 0.5) phases, providing a platform to investigate the connection between superconductivity, magnetism and electronic correlations. Here we use x-ray absorption spectroscopy and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering to study the valence state of Fe and spin dynamics in two NaFe1–xCuxAs compounds (x = 0 and 0.47). We find that magnetism in both compounds arises from Fe2+ atoms, and exhibits underdamped dispersive spin waves in their respective ordered states. The dispersion of spin excitations in NaFe0.53Cu0.47As is consistent with being quasi-one-dimensional. Compared to NaFeAs, the band top of spin waves in NaFe0.53Cu0.47As is slightly softened with significantly more spectral weight of the spin excitations. Here, our results indicate the spin dynamics in NaFe0.53Cu0.47As arise from localized magnetic moments and suggest the iron-based superconductors are proximate to a correlated insulating state with localized iron moments.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.103.075112},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 7,
volume = 103,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Feb 04 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Thu Feb 04 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}
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