Coupling of structure to magnetic and superconducting orders in quasi-one-dimensional K2Cr3As3
Abstract
Here, quasi-one-dimensional A2Cr3As3 (with A = K, Cs, Rb) is an intriguing new family of superconductors which exhibit many similar features to the cuprate and iron-based unconventional superconductor families. Yet, in contrast to these systems, no charge or magnetic ordering has been observed which could provide the electronic correlations presumed necessary for an unconventional superconducting pairing mechanism—an absence which defies predictions of first-principles models. We report the results of neutron scattering experiments on polycrystalline K2Cr3As3 (Tc ~ 7) which probed the low-temperature dynamics near Tc. Neutron diffraction data evidence a subtle response of the nuclear lattice to the onset of superconductivity while inelastic scattering reveals a highly dispersive column of intensity at the commensurate wave vector q = (001/2) which loses intensity beneath Tc-indicative of short-range magnetic fluctuations. Using linear spin-wave theory, we model the observed scattering and suggest a possible structure to the short-range magnetic order. These observations suggest that K2Cr3As3 is in close proximity to a magnetic instability and that the incipient magnetic order both couples strongly to the lattice and competes with superconductivity, in direct analogy with the iron-based superconductors.
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1784218
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- OSTI ID: 1409468
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 96; 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; magnetism; superconductivity; 1-dimensional systems; inelastic neutron scattering; neutron diffraction
Citation Formats
Taddei, Keith M., Zheng, Qiang, Sefat, Athena Safa, and Dela Cruz, Clarina R. Coupling of structure to magnetic and superconducting orders in quasi-one-dimensional K2Cr3As3. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.96.180506.
Taddei, Keith M., Zheng, Qiang, Sefat, Athena Safa, & Dela Cruz, Clarina R. Coupling of structure to magnetic and superconducting orders in quasi-one-dimensional K2Cr3As3. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.96.180506
Taddei, Keith M., Zheng, Qiang, Sefat, Athena Safa, and Dela Cruz, Clarina R. Mon .
"Coupling of structure to magnetic and superconducting orders in quasi-one-dimensional K2Cr3As3". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.96.180506. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1784218.
@article{osti_1784218,
title = {Coupling of structure to magnetic and superconducting orders in quasi-one-dimensional K2Cr3As3},
author = {Taddei, Keith M. and Zheng, Qiang and Sefat, Athena Safa and Dela Cruz, Clarina R.},
abstractNote = {Here, quasi-one-dimensional A2Cr3As3 (with A = K, Cs, Rb) is an intriguing new family of superconductors which exhibit many similar features to the cuprate and iron-based unconventional superconductor families. Yet, in contrast to these systems, no charge or magnetic ordering has been observed which could provide the electronic correlations presumed necessary for an unconventional superconducting pairing mechanism—an absence which defies predictions of first-principles models. We report the results of neutron scattering experiments on polycrystalline K2Cr3As3 (Tc ~ 7) which probed the low-temperature dynamics near Tc. Neutron diffraction data evidence a subtle response of the nuclear lattice to the onset of superconductivity while inelastic scattering reveals a highly dispersive column of intensity at the commensurate wave vector q = (001/2) which loses intensity beneath Tc-indicative of short-range magnetic fluctuations. Using linear spin-wave theory, we model the observed scattering and suggest a possible structure to the short-range magnetic order. These observations suggest that K2Cr3As3 is in close proximity to a magnetic instability and that the incipient magnetic order both couples strongly to the lattice and competes with superconductivity, in direct analogy with the iron-based superconductors.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.96.180506},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 18,
volume = 96,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Mon Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2017}
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