A superconducting-to-magnetic transition is reported for LaFeAsO0.89F0.11 where a per-thousand amount of Mn impurities is dispersed. By employing local spectroscopic techniques like muon spin rotation (muSR) and nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) on compounds with Mn contents ranging from x = 0.025% to x = 0.75 %, we find that the electronic properties are extremely sensitive to the Mn impurities. In fact, a small amount of Mn as low as 0.2% suppresses superconductivity completely. Static magnetism, involving the FeAs planes, is observed to arise for x > 0.1% and becomes further enhanced upon increasing Mn substitution. Also a progressive increase of low-energy spin fluctuations, leading to an enhancement of the NQR spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T1, is observed upon Mn substitution. The analysis of 1/T1 for the sample closest to the crossover between superconductivity and magnetism (x = 0.2%) points toward the presence of an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point around that doping level.
Hammerath, F., Bonfà, P., Sanna, S., Prando, G., De Renzi, R., Kobayashi, Y., et al. (2014). Poisoning effect of Mn in LaFe1-xMnxAsO0.89F0.11: Unveiling a quantum critical point in the phase diagram of iron-based superconductors. PHYSICAL REVIEW. B, CONDENSED MATTER AND MATERIALS PHYSICS, 89, 1-10 [10.1103/PhysRevB.89.134503].
Poisoning effect of Mn in LaFe1-xMnxAsO0.89F0.11: Unveiling a quantum critical point in the phase diagram of iron-based superconductors
SANNA, SAMUELE;
2014
Abstract
A superconducting-to-magnetic transition is reported for LaFeAsO0.89F0.11 where a per-thousand amount of Mn impurities is dispersed. By employing local spectroscopic techniques like muon spin rotation (muSR) and nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) on compounds with Mn contents ranging from x = 0.025% to x = 0.75 %, we find that the electronic properties are extremely sensitive to the Mn impurities. In fact, a small amount of Mn as low as 0.2% suppresses superconductivity completely. Static magnetism, involving the FeAs planes, is observed to arise for x > 0.1% and becomes further enhanced upon increasing Mn substitution. Also a progressive increase of low-energy spin fluctuations, leading to an enhancement of the NQR spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T1, is observed upon Mn substitution. The analysis of 1/T1 for the sample closest to the crossover between superconductivity and magnetism (x = 0.2%) points toward the presence of an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point around that doping level.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
