Cascade of field-induced magnetic transitions in a frustrated antiferromagnetic metal

Physical Review B American Physical Society (APS) 90:2 (2014) 020401

Authors:

AI Coldea, L Seabra, A McCollam, A Carrington, L Malone, AF Bangura, D Vignolles, PG van Rhee, RD McDonald, T Sörgel, M Jansen, N Shannon, R Coldea

Field-induced magnetic transitions in Ca10(Pt3As8)((Fe1−xPtx)2As2)5 compounds

Phys. Rev. B 89, 205136 (2014) American Physical Society 89:20 (2014) 205136-205136

Authors:

MD Watson, A McCollam, SF Blake, D Vignolles, L Drigo, II Mazin, D Guterding, HO Jeschke, R Valentí, N Ni, R Cava, AI Coldea

Field-induced nematic-like magnetic transition in an iron pnictide superconductor, Ca$_{10}$(Pt$_{3}$As$_{8}$)((Fe$_{1-x}$Pt$_{x}$)$_{2}$As$_{2}$)$_{5}$

(2013)

Authors:

MD Watson, A McCollam, SF Blake, D Vignolles, L Drigo, II Mazin, D Guterding, HO Jeschke, R Valenti, N Ni, R Cava, AI Coldea

Field-induced nematic-like magnetic transition in an iron pnictide superconductor, Ca$_{10}$(Pt$_{3}$As$_{8}$)((Fe$_{1-x}$Pt$_{x}$)$_{2}$As$_{2}$)$_{5}$

ArXiv 1310.3728 (2013)

Authors:

MD Watson, A McCollam, SF Blake, D Vignolles, L Drigo, II Mazin, D Guterding, HO Jeschke, R Valenti, N Ni, R Cava, AI Coldea

Abstract:

We report a high magnetic field study up to 55 T of the nearly optimally doped iron-pnictide superconductor Ca$_{10}$(Pt$_{3}$As$_{8}$) ((Fe$_{1-x}$Pt$_{x}$)$_{2}$As$_{2}$)$_{5}$ (x=0.078(6)) with a Tc 10 K using magnetic torque, tunnel diode oscillator technique and transport measurements. We determine the superconducting phase diagram, revealing an anisotropy of the irreversibility field up to a factor of 10 near Tc and signatures of multiband superconductivity. Unexpectedly, we find a spin-flop like anomaly in magnetic torque at 22 T, when the magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the ab planes, which becomes significantly more pronounced as the temperature is lowered to 0.33 K. As our superconducting sample lies well outside the antiferromagnetic region of the phase diagram, the observed field-induced transition in torque indicates a spin-flop transition not of long-range ordered moments, but of nematic-like antiferromagnetic fluctuations.

Electronic structure of LuRh2Si2: ‘small’ Fermi surface reference to YbRh2Si2

New Journal of Physics IOP Publishing 15:9 (2013) 093014

Authors:

Sven Friedemann, Swee K Goh, Patrick MC Rourke, Pascal Reiss, Michael L Sutherland, F Malte Grosche, Gertrud Zwicknagl, Zachary Fisk