Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2009-02-18
Physical Review Letters 102, 217001 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
12 pages, 3 figues Revised version, Final version, Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Scientific paper
Extensive inelastic neutron scattering measurements of phonons on a single crystal of CaFe2As2 allowed us to establish a fairly complete picture of phonon dispersions in the main symmetry directions. The phonon spectra were also calculated by density functional theory (DFT) in the local density approximation (LDA). There are serious discrepancies between calculations done for the optimized structure and experiment, because the optimised structure is not the ambient pressure structure but is very close to the collapsed structure reached at p = 3.5 kbar. However, if the experimental crystal structure is used the calculation gives correct frequencies of most phonons. The most important new result is that linewidths/frequencies of certain modes are larger/softer than predicted by DFT-LDA. We also observed strong temperature dependence of some phonons near the structural phase transition near 173K. This behavior may indicate anomalously strong electron phonon coupling and/or anharmonicity, which may be important to the mechanism of superconductivity.
Bohnen Klaus Peter
Brueckel Th.
Chaplot Samrath L.
Dhar Sudesh Kumar
Heid Rolf
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