Frustration-driven C4 symmetric order in a naturally-heterostructured superconductor Sr2VO3FeAs
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Abstract
A subtle balance between competing interactions in iron-based superconductors (FeSCs) can be tipped by additional interfacial interactions in a heterostructure, often inducing exotic phases with unprecedented properties. Particularly when the proximity-coupled layer is magnetically active, rich phase diagrams are expected in FeSCs, but this has not been explored yet. Here, using high-accuracy 75As and 51V nuclear magnetic resonance measurements, we investigate an electronic phase that emerges in the FeAs layer below T 0 ∼ 155 K of Sr2VO3FeAs, a naturally assembled heterostructure of an FeSC and a Mott-insulating vanadium oxide. We find that frustration of the otherwise dominant Fe stripe and V Neel fluctuations via interfacial coupling induces a charge/orbital order in the FeAs layers, without either static magnetism or broken C 4 symmetry, while suppressing the Neel antiferromagnetism in the SrVO3 layers. These findings demonstrate that the magnetic proximity coupling stabilizes a hidden order in FeSCs, which may also apply to other strongly correlated heterostructures.
Details
Original language | English |
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Article number | 2167 |
Journal | Nature communications |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2017 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
PubMed | 29255140 |
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