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Magnetism and its coexistence with superconductivity in CaK(Fe0.949Ni0.051)(4)As-4: Muon spin rotation/relaxation studies
Ames Laboratory Accepted Manuscripts
  • Rustem Khasanov, Paul Scherrer Institut
  • Gediminas Simutis, Paul Scherrer Institut and Université Paris-Sud
  • Yurii G. Pashkevich, O. O. Galkin Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering
  • Tatyana Shevtsova, O. O. Galkin Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering
  • William R. Meier, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Mingyu Xu, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Sergey L. Bud’ko, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Vladimir G. Kogan, Ames Laboratory
  • Paul C. Canfield, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
Publication Date
9-3-2020
Department
Ames Laboratory; Physics and Astronomy
OSTI ID+
1660599
Report Number
IS-J 10305
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.102.094504
Journal Title
Physical Review B
Abstract

The magnetic response of CaK(Fe0.949Ni0.051)(4)As-4 was investigated by means of the muon spin rotation/relaxation. The long-range commensurate magnetic order sets in below the Neel temperature T-N = 50.0(5) K. The density-functional theory calculations have identified three possible muon stopping sites. The experimental data were found to be consistent with only one type of magnetic structure, namely, the long-range magnetic spin-vortex-crystal order with the hedgehog motif within the ab plane and the antiferromagnetic stacking along the c direction. The value of the ordered magnetic moment at T approximate to 3 K was estimated to be m(Fe) = 0.38(11)mu(B) (mu(B) is the Bohr magneton). A microscopic coexistence of magnetic and superconducting phases accompanied by a reduction of the magnetic order parameter below the superconducting transition temperature T-c similar or equal to 9 K is observed. Comparison with 11, 122, and 1144 families of Fe-based pnictides points to existence of correlation between the reduction of the magnetic order parameter at T -> 0 and the ratio of the transition temperatures T-c/T-N. Such correlations were found to be described by Machida's model for coexistence of itinerant spin-density-wave magnetism and superconductivity [K. Machida, T. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 50, 2195 (1981); S. L. Bud'ko et al., Phys. Rev. B 98, 144520 (2018)].

DOE Contract Number(s)
200021-175935; P2EZP2-178604; GBMF4411; AC02-07CH11358
Language
en
Publisher
Iowa State University Digital Repository, Ames IA (United States)
Citation Information
Rustem Khasanov, Gediminas Simutis, Yurii G. Pashkevich, Tatyana Shevtsova, et al.. "Magnetism and its coexistence with superconductivity in CaK(Fe0.949Ni0.051)(4)As-4: Muon spin rotation/relaxation studies" Vol. 102 Iss. 9 (2020) p. 094504
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