Anharmonic softening of Raman active phonons in Iron-Pnictides; estimating the Fe isotope effect due to anharmonic expansion

Details Anharmonic softening of Raman active phonons in Iron-Pnictides; estimating the Fe isotope effect due to anharmonic expansion Anharmonic softening of Raman active phonons in Iron-Pnictides; estimating the Fe isotope effect due to anharmonic expansion

2009-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/0902.0505v2

Phys. Rev. B 79, 235103 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

7 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.79.235103

We present Raman measurements on the iron-pnictide superconductors CeFeAsO_{1-x}F_{x} and NdFeAsO{1-x}F_{x}. Modeling the Fe-As plane in terms of harmonic and a cubic anharmonic Fe-As interaction we calculate the temperature dependence of the energy and lifetime of the Raman active Fe B_{1g} mode and fit to the observed energy shift. The shifts and lifetimes are in good agreement with those measured also in other Raman studies which demonstrate that the phonon spectrum is well represented by phonon-phonon interactions without any significant electronic contribution. We also estimate the anharmonic expansion from Fe (56->54) isotope substitution to \Delta a=5.1 10^{-4}\AA and \Delta d_{Fe-As}= 2.510^{-4}\AA and the shift of harmonic zero point fluctuations of bond lengths <\Delta x^2><=3 10^{-5}\AA^2, giving a total relative average decrease of electronic hopping integrals of |\delta t|/t<= 2.0 10^{-4}. The results poses a serious challenge for any theory of superconductivity in the pnictides that does not include electron-phonon interactions to produce a sizable Fe-isotope effect.

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