Evidence of spin density wave in LaFeAsO, the parent material of the new Fe-based oxypnictide superconductors

Details Evidence of spin density wave in LaFeAsO, the parent material of the new Fe-based oxypnictide superconductors Evidence of spin density wave in LaFeAsO, the parent material of the new Fe-based oxypnictide superconductors

2008-09-30

arxiv.org/abs/0809.5128v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

10 pages, 4 figures; Corrected typos

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The Fe-based Oxypnicide superconductors have generated a huge amount of interest; they are a high temperature superconductor, with a Tc of 55K, but do not have the two dimensional copper oxygen layer that was thought essential for superconductivity at these high temperatures. Initial studies have hinted towards the possibility of a spin density wave (SDW) in these compounds and how they could play an important role in the superconductivity. SDW's occur at low temperatures in low-dimensional materials with strong electron correlations or in metals with a high density of states at the Fermi surface. A transition to the SDW state has many similarities to the superconducting transition, driven by the condensation energy with an energy gap opening, and in many materials the SDW state occurs adjacent in the phase diagram to the superconducting state. In these materials it is believed that electron doping suppresses the SDW instability allowing superconductivity to emerge. In this paper we report on the first direct experimental evidence of a SDW in the LaFeAsO parent compound as observed with inelastic neutron scattering. We show that these excitation derive from a two-dimensional Fermi surface nesting with a nesting vector of (\pi,\pi,0).

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