Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2011-06-28
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
5 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.85.094105
We present uniaxial pressure structural relaxations for CaFe2As2 and BaFe2Ase2 within density functional theory and compare them with calculations under hydrostatic pressure conditions as well as available experimental results. We find that CaFe2As2 shows a unique phase transition from a magnetic orthorhombic phase to a nonmagnetic collapsed tetragonal phase for both pressure conditions and no indication of a tetragonal phase is observed at intermediate uniaxial pressures. In contrast, BaFe2As2 shows for both pressure conditions two phase transitions from a magnetic orthorhombic to a collapsed tetragonal phase through an intermediate nonmagnetic tetragonal phase. We find that the critical transition pressures under uniaxial conditions are much lower than those under hydrostatic conditions manifesting the high sensitivity of the systems to uniaxial stress. We discuss the origin of this sensitivity and its relation to superconductivity.
Jeschke Harald O.
Tomic Milan
Valenti Roser
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