Microscopic phase diagram of LaFeAsO single crystals under pressure

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Beitragende

  • Philipp Materne - , Argonne National Laboratory (Autor:in)
  • Wenli Bi - , Argonne National Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Autor:in)
  • Jiyong Zhao - , Argonne National Laboratory (Autor:in)
  • Michael Y. Hu - , Argonne National Laboratory (Autor:in)
  • Rhea Kappenberger - , Professur für Festkörperphysik/Elektronische Eigenschaften, Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Sabine Wurmehl - , Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Saicharan Aswartham - , Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Bernd Büchner - , Professur für Experimentelle Festkörperphysik (gB/IFW), Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • E. Ercan Alp - , Argonne National Laboratory (Autor:in)

Abstract

We investigated a LaFeAsO single crystal by means of synchrotron Mössbauer spectroscopy under pressure up to 7.5 GPa and down to 13 K and provide a microscopic phase diagram. We found a continuous suppression of the magnetic hyperfine field with increasing pressure, and it completely vanishes at ∼7.5GPa, which is in contrast to the behavior in polycrystalline samples where the magnetic order vanishes at ∼20GPa. The different behaviors of the polycrystalline samples might be due to As vacancies. Our results are in qualitative agreement with density functional theory calculations where a reduction of the magnetic moment with increasing pressure was found. We found that among different samples the magnetic phase-transition temperature as well as the low-temperature magnetic hyperfine field decrease with increasing unit-cell volume.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer174510
FachzeitschriftPhysical Review B
Jahrgang98
Ausgabenummer17
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 26 Nov. 2018
Peer-Review-StatusJa