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Title: Plaquette instability competing with bicollinear ground state in detwinned FeTe

Abstract

Here, we use inelastic neutron scattering to show that long-range spin waves arising from the static bicollinear antiferromagnetic (AF) order in FeTe, which have twofold rotational symmetry in a fully detwinned crystal, rapidly dissolve above E ≈ 26 meV into ridges of scattering with fourfold rotational symmetry and a nearly isotropic magnetic fluctuation spectrum. With increasing temperature above $$T_N$$ ≈ 68 K, the twofold spin waves change into broad regions of scattering with fourfold symmetry. Since the scattering patterns from plaquette magnetic order generated within a bilinear biquadratic Hamiltonian have fourfold rotational symmetry consistent with the high-energy, spinisotropic spin waves of FeTe, we conclude that the bicollinear AF state in FeTe is quasidegenerate with plaquette magnetic order, providing evidence for the strongly frustrated nature of the local moments in iron chalcogenide family of iron-based superconductors.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [5];  [6];  [6];  [7];  [8];  [1]; ORCiD logo [9]
  1. Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)
  2. Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (United States)
  3. Beijing Normal University (China)
  4. Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Oxford (United Kingdom). Rutherford Appleton Lab. (RAL)
  5. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  6. Inst. Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble (France)
  7. Forschungszentrum Juelich (Germany)
  8. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
  9. Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States); Beijing Normal University (China)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
Robert A. Welch Foundation; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division
OSTI Identifier:
1868536
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1547985
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0019068; SC0012311; C-1839; 310432101; SC0018197; C-1411
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review. B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 100; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

Citation Formats

Tam, David W., Lai, Hsin-Hua, Hu, Jin, Lu, Xingye, Walker, H. C., Abernathy, D. L., Niedziela, J. L., Weber, Tobias, Enderle, M., Su, Yixi, Mao, Z. Q., Si, Qimiao, and Dai, Pengcheng. Plaquette instability competing with bicollinear ground state in detwinned FeTe. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.100.054405.
Tam, David W., Lai, Hsin-Hua, Hu, Jin, Lu, Xingye, Walker, H. C., Abernathy, D. L., Niedziela, J. L., Weber, Tobias, Enderle, M., Su, Yixi, Mao, Z. Q., Si, Qimiao, & Dai, Pengcheng. Plaquette instability competing with bicollinear ground state in detwinned FeTe. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.100.054405
Tam, David W., Lai, Hsin-Hua, Hu, Jin, Lu, Xingye, Walker, H. C., Abernathy, D. L., Niedziela, J. L., Weber, Tobias, Enderle, M., Su, Yixi, Mao, Z. Q., Si, Qimiao, and Dai, Pengcheng. Mon . "Plaquette instability competing with bicollinear ground state in detwinned FeTe". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.100.054405. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1868536.
@article{osti_1868536,
title = {Plaquette instability competing with bicollinear ground state in detwinned FeTe},
author = {Tam, David W. and Lai, Hsin-Hua and Hu, Jin and Lu, Xingye and Walker, H. C. and Abernathy, D. L. and Niedziela, J. L. and Weber, Tobias and Enderle, M. and Su, Yixi and Mao, Z. Q. and Si, Qimiao and Dai, Pengcheng},
abstractNote = {Here, we use inelastic neutron scattering to show that long-range spin waves arising from the static bicollinear antiferromagnetic (AF) order in FeTe, which have twofold rotational symmetry in a fully detwinned crystal, rapidly dissolve above E ≈ 26 meV into ridges of scattering with fourfold rotational symmetry and a nearly isotropic magnetic fluctuation spectrum. With increasing temperature above $T_N$ ≈ 68 K, the twofold spin waves change into broad regions of scattering with fourfold symmetry. Since the scattering patterns from plaquette magnetic order generated within a bilinear biquadratic Hamiltonian have fourfold rotational symmetry consistent with the high-energy, spinisotropic spin waves of FeTe, we conclude that the bicollinear AF state in FeTe is quasidegenerate with plaquette magnetic order, providing evidence for the strongly frustrated nature of the local moments in iron chalcogenide family of iron-based superconductors.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.100.054405},
journal = {Physical Review. B},
number = 5,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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