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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik

O 19: Focus Session: Frontiers of Electronic-Structure Theory: Correlated Electron Materials II (joint session O/MM/DS/TT/CPP)

O 19.8: Vortrag

Montag, 12. März 2018, 16:45–17:00, HL 001

Unveiling the mysterious magnetic state of superconducting iron under pressure — •Matteo d’Astuto — Institut NEEL CNRS/UGA UPR2940 25 rue des Martyrs BP 166 38042 Grenoble cedex 9 FRANCE — IMPMC, UMR CNRS 7590, Sorbonne Universités-UPMC University Paris 06, MNHN, IRD, 4 Place Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France

Compressed iron undergoes a transition from bcc to hcp crystal structure with a loss of ferromagnetism. The magnetic state of the hcp phase has been debated for many decades and experiments give seemingly contradictory results. Mössbauer measurements find no magnetism, however x-ray emission spectroscopy finds remnant magnetism and Raman mode splitting suggests symmetry breaking due to antiferromagnetism. These paradoxical results are consistent with either a paramagnetic state with spin fluctuations faster than Mössbauer timescales or an antiferromagnetic state, afmII, which is undetectable with Mössbauer spectroscopy. We performed neutron powder diffraction measurements in the hcp phase and do not observe afmII order down to 1.8 K, while confirming the existence of a local magnetic moment in the hcp phase with x-ray emission spectroscopy and find it is intrinsic to this phase (1). This local magnetic moment disappears at 30–40 GPa, exactly the same pressure region where superconductivity disappears.

(1) B. W. Lebert, T. Gorni J.-P. Rueff, S. Klotz, M. Casula, A. Juhin, J. M. Ablett, F. Baudelet, T. Straessle, T. Hansen, A. Polian, P. Munsch, G. Le Marchand, Z. Zhang, M. d’Astuto, article in preparation.