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Magnetism and its coexistence with superconductivity in CaK(Fe0.949Ni0.051)4As4: Muon spin rotation/relaxation studies

Rustem Khasanov, Gediminas Simutis, Yurii G. Pashkevich, Tatyana Shevtsova, William R. Meier, Mingyu Xu, Sergey L. Bud'ko, Vladimir G. Kogan, Paul C. Canfield

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.094504 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

The magnetic response of CaK(Fe0.949Ni0.051)4As4 was investigated by means of the muon spin rotation/relaxation. The long-range commensurate magnetic order sets in below the Néel temperature TN=50.0(5) K. The density-functional theory calculations have identified three possible muon stopping sites. The experimental data were found to be consistent with only one type of magnetic structure, namely, the long-range magnetic spin-vortex-crystal order with the hedgehog motif within the ab plane and the antiferromagnetic stacking along the c direction. The value of the ordered magnetic moment at T≈3 K was estimated to be mFe=0.38(11)μB (μB is the Bohr magneton). A microscopic coexistence of magnetic and superconducting phases accompanied by a reduction of the magnetic order parameter below the superconducting transition temperature Tc≃9 K is observed. Comparison with 11, 122, and 1144 families of Fe-based pnictides points to existence of correlation between the reduction of the magnetic order parameter at T→0 and the ratio of the transition temperatures Tc/TN. Such correlations were found to be described by Machida's model for coexistence of itinerant spin-density-wave magnetism and superconductivity [K. Machida, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 50, 2195 (1981); S. L. Bud'ko et al., Phys. Rev. B 98, 144520 (2018)].

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CaK(Fe0.949Ni0.051)4As4

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