Clarifying the origin of nematic state in FeSe is one of urgent problems in the field of iron-based superconductivity. Motivated by the discovery of a nematic solution in the density-functional theory implemented by on-site Coulomb interaction (DFT+U) [npj Quantum Mater. \textbf{5}, 50 (2020)], we reexamine the U dependence of electronic states in the nonmagnetic normal state of FeSe and perform full multipolar analyses for the nematic state. We find that with increasing U the normal state experiences a topological change in the Fermi surfaces before the emergence of a nematic ground state. The resulting nematic ground state is a multipolar state having both antiferrohexadecapoles in the E representation and ferromultipoles in the B2 representation on each Fe site. Cooperative coupling between the E and the B2 multipoles in the local coordinate with the D2d point group will play an important role in the formation of the dxz,dyz orbital-splitting nematic state not only in FeSe, but also in other iron pnictides.
@article{arxiv.2107.07244,
title = {Multipolar nematic state of nonmagnetic FeSe based on the DFT+$U$},
author = {Takemi Yamada and Takami Tohyama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.07244},
year = {2021}
}