Thursday, May 24, 2012

1205.5069 (Jinsheng Wen et al.)

Magnetic order tuned by Cu substitution in Fe1.1-zCuzTe    [PDF]

Jinsheng Wen, Zhijun Xu, Guangyong Xu, M. D. Lumsden, P. N. Valdivia, E. Bourret-Courchesne, Genda Gu, Dung-Hai Lee, J. M. Tranquada, R. J. Birgeneau
We study the effects of Cu substitution in Fe1.1Te, the non-superconducting parent compound of the iron-based superconductor, Fe1+yTe1-xSex, utilizing neutron scattering techniques. It is found that the structural and magnetic transitions, which occur at \sim 60 K without Cu, are monotonically depressed with increasing Cu content. By 10% Cu for Fe, the structural transition is hardly detectable, and the system becomes a spin glass below 22 K, with a slightly incommensurate ordering wave vector of (0.48, 0, 0.5), and correlation length of 12 angstrom along the a axis and 9 angstrom along the c axis. With 4% Cu, both transition temperatures are at 41 K, though short-range incommensurate order at (0.42, 0, 0.5) is present at 60 K. With further cooling, the incommensurability decreases linearly with temperature down to 37 K, below which there is a first order transition to a long-range almost-commensurate antiferromagnetic structure. A spin anisotropy gap of 4.5 meV is also observed in this compound. Our results show that the weakly magnetic Cu has large effects on the magnetic correlations; it is suggested that this is caused by the frustration of the exchange interactions between the coupled Fe spins.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5069

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