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Friedel-like Oscillations from Interstitial Iron in Superconducting Fe1+yTe0.62Se0.38

Superconductivity 2015-03-19 v1

Abstract

Using polarized and unpolarized neutron scattering we show that interstitial Fe in superconducting Fe_{1+y}Te_{1-x}Se_x induces a magnetic Friedel-like oscillation that diffracts at Q_(in-plane)=(1/2,0) and involves >50 neighboring Fe sites. The interstitial >2 mu_B moment is surrounded by compensating ferromagnetic four spin clusters that may seed double stripe ordering in Fe_{1+y}Te. A semi-metallic 5-band model with (1/2,1/2) Fermi surface nesting and four fold symmetric super-exchange between interstitial Fe and two in-plane nearest neighbors largely accounts for the observed diffraction.

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@article{arxiv.1109.5196,
  title  = {Friedel-like Oscillations from Interstitial Iron in Superconducting Fe1+yTe0.62Se0.38},
  author = {V. Thampy and J. Kang and J. A. Rodriguez-Rivera and W. Bao and A. T. Savici and J. Hu and T. J. Liu and B. Qian and D. Fobes and Z. Q. Mao and C. B. Fu and W. C. Chen and Q. Ye and R. W. Erwin and T. R. Gentile and Z. Tesanovic and C. Broholm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.5196},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 5 figures