Browsing by Author "Li, SL"

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    Electron doping effects on the spin spectroscopy of BaFe2-xNixAs2 superconductors
    (International Conference on Neutron Scattering, 2017-07-12) Luo, HQ; Gong, DL; Xie, T; Lu, XY; Kamazawa, K; Iida, K; Kajimoto, R; Ivanov, AS; Adroja, DT; Kulda, J; Danilkin, SA; Deng, GC; Li, SL; Dai, PC
    High-temperature superconductivity in iron pnictides emerges from electron or hole doped parent compounds with antiferromagnetic order, which is argued to be associated with both the presence of high-energy spin excitations and a coupling between low-energy spin excitations and itinerant electrons. With more than 6 years\' efforts, we have used time-of-flight neutron spectroscopy to extensively map out the spin excitations in the electron-doped BaFe2-xNixAs2 especially around the overdoped zone boundary of superconductivity. We have found that the high energy spin fluctuations survive in the extremely high doping x=0.6 far beyond the superconducting dome, but the low energy spin excitations including the spin resonance mode is very sensitive to the electron dopings, by finally forming a large spin gap just after the disappearance of superconductivity in the overdoped regime. Further polarized neutron analysis indicate that the spin gap actually is anisotropic, and the longitudinal mode of spin fluctuations, as a hallmark of the itinerant magnetism from Fermi surface nesting, is totally eliminated together with the hole pockets near the electron-overdoped zone boundary of superconductivity.Our results suggest that the strong fluctuations from local moments give framework for magnetic interaction, while itinerant spin excitations originated from Fermi surface nesting are crucial to the superconductivity in iron pnictides.
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    Electron doping evolution of the anisotropic spin excitations in BaFe(2-x)NixAs2
    (Americal Physical Society, 2012-07-10) Luo, HQ; Yamani, Z; Chen, YC; Lu, XY; Wang, M; Li, SL; Maier, TA; Danilkin, SA; Adroja, DT; Dai, PC
    We use inelastic neutron scattering to systematically investigate the Ni-doping evolution of the low-energy spin excitations in BaFe(2-x)NixAs2 spanning from underdoped antiferromagnet to overdoped superconductor (0.03 <= x <= 0.18). In the undoped state, BaFe2As2 changes from paramagnetic tetragonal phase to orthorhombic antiferromagnetic (AF) phase below about 138 K, where the low-energy (<=similar to 80 meV) spin waves form transversely elongated ellipses in the [H, K] plane of the reciprocal space. Upon Ni doping to suppress the static AF order and induce superconductivity, the c-axis magnetic exchange coupling is rapidly suppressed and the momentum distribution of spin excitations in the [H, K] plane is enlarged in both the transverse and longitudinal directions with respect to the in-plane AF ordering wave vector of the parent compound. As a function of increasing Ni-doping x, the spin excitation widths increase linearly but with a larger rate along the transverse direction. These results are in general agreement with calculations of dynamic susceptibility based on the random phase approximation (RPA) in an itinerant electron picture. For samples near optimal superconductivity at x approximate to 0.1, a neutron spin resonance appears in the superconducting state. Upon further increasing the electron doping to decrease the superconducting transition temperature T-c, the intensity of the low-energy magnetic scattering decreases and vanishes concurrently with vanishing superconductivity in the overdoped side of the superconducting dome. Comparing with the low-energy spin excitations centered at commensurate AF positions for underdoped and optimally doped materials (x <= 0.1), spin excitations in the overdoped side (x = 0.15) form transversely incommensurate spin excitations, consistent with the RPA calculation. Therefore, the itinerant electron approach provides a reasonable description to the low-energy AF spin excitations in BaFe(2-x)NixAs2. © 2012, American Physical Society.
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    Preferred spin excitations in the bilayer iron-based superconductor CaKðFe0.96Ni0.04Þ4As4 with spin-vortex crystal order
    (American Physical Society, 2022-03-31) Liu, C; Bourges, P; Sidis, Y; He, GH; Bourdarot, F; Danilkin, SA; Ghosh, H; Ghosh, S; Ma, XY; Li, SL; Li, Y; Luo, HQ; Xie, T
    Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is a key to understand the magnetically driven superconductivity in iron-based superconductors, where both local and itinerant electrons are present and the orbital angular momentum is not completely quenched. Here, we report a neutron scattering study on the bilayer compound CaK(Fe0.96Ni0.04)4As4 with superconductivity coexisting with a noncollinear spin-vortex crystal magnetic order that preserves the tetragonal symmetry of the Fe-Fe plane. In the superconducting state, two spin resonance modes with odd and even L symmetries due to the bilayer coupling are found similar to the undoped compound CaKFe4As4 but at lower energies. Polarization analysis reveals that the odd mode is c-axis polarized, and the low-energy spin anisotropy can persist to the paramagnetic phase at high temperature, which closely resembles other systems with in-plane collinear and c-axis biaxial magnetic orders. These results provide the missing piece of the puzzle on the SOC effect in iron-pnictide superconductors, and also establish a common picture of c-axis preferred magnetic excitations below Tc regardless of the details of magnetic pattern or lattice symmetry. © 2022 American Physical Society