Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2008-06-13
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 257002 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
4 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Identical to v3, correct HTML front matter; Scientific data and conclusions the same as in v2
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.257002
The transition temperature Tc~26 K of the recently discovered superconductor LaFeAs(O,F) has been demonstrated to be extremely sensitive to the lanthanide ion, reaching 55 K for the Sm containing oxypnictides. Therefore, it is important to determine how the moment on the lanthanide affects the overall magnetism in these systems. Here we report a neutron diffraction study of the Nd oxypnictides. Long ranged antiferromagnetic order is apparent in NdFeAsO below 1.96 K. Rietveld refinement shows that both Fe and Nd magnetic ordering are required to describe the observed data with the staggered moment 1.55(4) Bohr magneton per Nd and 0.9(1) Bohr magneton per Fe at 0.3 K. The other structural properties such as the tetragonal-orthorhombic distortion are found to be very similar to those in LaFeAsO. Neither the magnetic ordering nor the structural distortion occur in the superconducting sample NdFeAsO0.80F0.20 at any temperatures down to 1.5 K.
Bao Wei
Chen Hua-Xing
Gasparovic Y. C.
Green Michael
Huang Qingzhen
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