Doping Dependence of the Resonant Spin Excitation in Ba1-xKxFe2As2

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We recently observed a resonant spin excitation in Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2, one of the newly discovered iron arsenide superconductors with Tc=38K, on MERLIN. This demonstrates that the sign of the energy gap is opposite on the disconnected hole and electron Fermi surfaces at the Brillouin zone centre and zone boundary respectively, indicating that the pairing potential is repulsive at short range. The energy of the excitation scales with the maximum superconducting energy gap in the same way as similar excitations in high-Tc copper oxide and heavy fermion superconductors. In this proposal, we plan to study the doping dependence of this excitation in polycrystalline samples from the non-superconducting and underdoped regime all the way to the overdoped regime to see how the superconductivity evolves with hole concentration, using MERLIN and LET.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24077350
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24077350
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Creator Dr Evgeny Goremychkin; Dr John-Paul Castellan; Dr Stephan Rosenkranz; Dr Ray Osborn
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-09-25T09:38:24Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-10-01T09:31:42Z