Pressure-induced Fermi-surface reconstruction in the iron-arsenide superconductor Ba 1-xK xFe 2As 2: Evidence of a phase transition inside the antiferromagnetic phase

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Beitragende

  • E. Hassinger - , Université de Sherbrooke (Autor:in)
  • G. Gredat - , Université de Sherbrooke (Autor:in)
  • F. Valade - , Université de Sherbrooke (Autor:in)
  • S. René De Cotret - , Université de Sherbrooke (Autor:in)
  • A. Juneau-Fecteau - , Université de Sherbrooke (Autor:in)
  • J. Ph Reid - , Université de Sherbrooke (Autor:in)
  • H. Kim - , Ames Laboratory (Autor:in)
  • M. A. Tanatar - , Ames Laboratory (Autor:in)
  • R. Prozorov - , Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University (Autor:in)
  • B. Shen - , Nanjing University (Autor:in)
  • H. H. Wen - , Nanjing University, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) (Autor:in)
  • N. Doiron-Leyraud - , Université de Sherbrooke (Autor:in)
  • Louis Taillefer - , Université de Sherbrooke, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) (Autor:in)

Abstract

The electrical resistivity ρ of the iron-arsenide superconductor Ba 1-xK xFe 2As 2 was measured in applied pressures up to 2.6 GPa for four underdoped samples, with x0.16, 0.18, 0.19, and 0.21. The antiferromagnetic ordering temperature T N, detected as a sharp anomaly in ρ(T), decreases linearly with pressure. At pressures above P1.0 GPa, a second sharp anomaly is detected at a lower temperature T 0, which rises with pressure. We attribute this second anomaly to the onset of a phase that causes a reconstruction of the Fermi surface. The new phase expands with increasing x and it competes with superconductivity. We discuss the possibility that a second spin-density wave orders at T 0, with a Q vector distinct from that of the spin-density wave that sets in at T N.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer140502
FachzeitschriftPhysical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Jahrgang86
Ausgabenummer14
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 18 Okt. 2012
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa