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Multipolar nematic state of nonmagnetic FeSe based on the DFT+$U$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2021-10-14 v3

Abstract

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+UU) [npj Quantum Mater. \textbf{5}, 50 (2020)], we reexamine the UU 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 UU 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 EE representation and ferromultipoles in the B2B_2 representation on each Fe site. Cooperative coupling between the EE and the B2B_2 multipoles in the local coordinate with the D2dD_{2d} point group will play an important role in the formation of the dxz, dyzd_{xz},~d_{yz} orbital-splitting nematic state not only in FeSe, but also in other iron pnictides.

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@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}
}

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8 pages, 5 figures