Is magnetic frustration behind the tetragonal-to-orthorhombic transition in the Fe pnictides?

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It has been argued that the tetragonal-to-orthorhombic structural transition found in all the parent phases of the Fe-pnictide superconductors is driven by frustration, and therefore frustration is a key ingredient of the superconducting state because the superconducting phases remain tetragonal. We will test this hypothesis by measuring the spin dynamics either side of the structural phase transition in the parent phase SrFe2As2. The objective is to search for changes in the spin dynamics on moving from the orthorhombic (unfrustrated) to the tetragonal (frustrated) phases. If frustration is important then a strong softening of the magnetic spectrum is predicted at certain points in the Brillouin Zone. The results will be interpreted with respect to a linear spin wave model which we have found successfully describes the magnetic spectrum at low temperatures.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079468
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079468
Provenance
Creator Dr Toby Perring; Dr Russell Ewings; Professor Andrew Boothroyd; Ms Alice Taylor; Mr Jack Gillett; Mr Sitikantha Das
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-06-25T10:32:27Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-08-10T10:04:15Z