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We report an inelastic neutron scattering study of the spin waves of the one-dimensional antiferromagnetic spin ladder compound RbFe$_2$Se$_3$. The results reveal that the products, $SJ$'s, of the spin $S$ and the magnetic exchange…

Motivated by the premise that superconductivity in iron-based superconductors is unconventional and mediated by spin fluctuations, an intense research effort has been focused on characterizing the spin excitation spectrum in the…

We use inelastic neutron scattering (INS) to investigate the effect of electron correlations on spin dynamics in the iron-based superconductor Ba$_{0.75}$K$_{0.25}$Fe$_{2}$As$_{2}$. Our INS data show a spin-wave-like dispersive feature,…

We report neutron inelastic scattering measurements on the stoichiometric iron-based superconductor LiFeAs. We find evidence for (i) magnetic scattering consistent with strong antiferromagnetic fluctuations, and (ii) an increase in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-21 A. E. Taylor , M. J. Pitcher , R. A. Ewings , T. G. Perring , S. J. Clarke , A. T. Boothroyd

Based on the effective four-band model we analyze the spin response in the normal and superconducting states of the Fe-pnictide superconductors. While the normal state spin excitations are dominated by the continuum of the interorbital…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-10-27 M. M. Korshunov , I. Eremin

We report on a spin-polarized inelastic neutron scattering study of spin waves in the antiferromagnetically ordered state of BaFe2As2. Three distinct excitation components are identified, with spins fluctuating along the c-axis,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-01-09 Chong Wang , Rui Zhang , Fa Wang , Huiqian Luo , L. P. Regnault , Pengcheng Dai , Yuan Li

We use inelastic neutron scattering to study the low-energy spin excitations of 112-type iron pnictide Ca$_{0.82}$La$_{0.18}$Fe$_{0.96}$Ni$_{0.04}$As$_{2}$ with bulk superconductivity below $T_c=22$ K. A two-dimensional spin resonance mode…

The present article reviews recent experimental investigations of spin dynamics in iron-based superconductors and their parent compounds by means of inelastic neutron scattering. It mainly focuses on the most contemporary developments in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-05 Dmytro S. Inosov

We have analytically solved the spin wave excitations for the intercalated ternary iron-selenide AFe$_{1.5}$Se$_2$ (A=K, Tl) in the $4\times 2$ collinear antiferromagnetic order. It is found that there are one acoustic branch (gapless…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-24 Miao Gao , Xun-Wang Yan , Zhong-Yi Lu

Spin wave excitations and stability of the ($\pi,0$) ordered magnetic state are investigated in a minimal two-band itinerant-electron model for iron pnictides. Presence of hopping anisotropy generates a strong ferro-orbital order in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-07 Sayandip Ghosh , Avinash Singh

Polarized- and unpolarized-neutron scattering measurements of the spin excitation spectrum in the stripe-ordered phase of La2NiO4+d (d = 0.11) are presented. At low energies, the magnetic spectral weight is found to shift anomalously…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-27 P. G. Freeman , S. M. Hayden , C. D. Frost , M. Enderle , D. X. Yao , E. W. Carlson , D. Prabhakaran , A. T. Boothroyd

We report high-resolution neutron inelastic scattering experiments on the spin excitations of NaV2O5. Below Tc, two branches associated with distinct energy gaps are identified. From the dispersion and intensity of the spin excitation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Grenier , O. Cepas , L. P. Regnault , J. E. Lorenzo , T. Ziman , J. P. Boucher , A. Hiess , T. Chatterji , J. Jegoudez , A. Revcolevschi

We present a phenomenological, two-fluid approach to understanding the magnetic excitations in Fe pnictides, in which a paramagnetic fluid with gapless, incoherent particle-hole excitations coexists with an antiferromagnetic fluid with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-12-06 Andrew Smerald , Nic Shannon

We report neutron scattering measurements of single-crystalline YFe$_2$Ge$_2$ in the normal state, which has the same crystal structure to the 122 family of iron pnictide superconductors. YFe$_2$Ge$_2$ does not exhibit long range magnetic…

The square Bi layers in $A$MnBi$_2$ ($A =$ Sr, Ca) host Dirac fermions which coexist with antiferromagnetic order on the Mn sublattice below $T_\mathrm{N} = 290\,$K (Sr) and $270\,$K (Ca). We have measured the spin-wave dispersion in these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-12 Marein C. Rahn , Andrew J. Princep , Andrea Piovano , Jiri Kulda , Yanfeng Guo , Youguo Shi , Andrew T. Boothroyd

Inelastic neutron scattering measurements of paramagnetic SrCo$_{2}$As$_{2}$ at T=5 K reveal antiferromagnetic (AFM) spin fluctuations that are peaked at a wavevector of $\textbf{Q}_{\mathrm{AFM}}=(1/2,1/2,1)$ and possess a large energy…

We use neutron scattering to determine spin excitations in single crystals of nonsuperconducting Li1-xFeAs throughout the Brillouin zone. Although angle resolved photoemission experiments and local density approximation calculations suggest…

We report on the spin waves and crystal field excitations in single crystal LiFePO$_4$ by inelastic neutron scattering over a wide range of temperatures, below and above the antiferromagnetic transition of this system. In particular, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-15 Yuen Yiu , Manh Duc Le , Rasmus Toft-Peterson , Georg Ehlers , Robert McQueeney , David Vaknin

Polarized and unpolarized neutron inelastic scattering has been used to measure the spin excitations in the spin-charge-ordered stripe phase of La5/3Sr1/3NiO4. At high energies, sharp magnetic modes are observed characteristic of a static…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 A. T. Boothroyd , D. Prabhakaran , P. G. Freeman , S. J. S. Lister , M. Enderle , A. Hiess , J. Kulda

High-transition temperature (high-$T_c$) superconductivity in the iron pnictides/chalcogenides emerges from the suppression of the static antiferromagnetic order in their parent compounds, similar to copper oxides superconductors. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-08-25 Pengcheng Dai