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Effects of vortices and impurities on the nuclear spin relaxation rate in iron-based superconductors

Hong-Min Jiang, Jia Guo, Jian-Xin Li

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.014533 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

The effects of magnetic vortices and nonmagnetic impurities on the low-energy quasiparticle excitations and the spin-lattice relaxation rate are examined in the iron-based superconductors for the s±-, s-, and d-wave pairing symmetries. The main effect of the vortices is to enhance the quasiparticle excitations and the spin-lattice relaxation rate for all symmetries, which leads to a T3 dependence of the relaxation rate followed by a nearly linear T dependence at lower temperatures. This enhancement can only be seen for the s±- and d-wave symmetries in the presence of nonmagnetic impurities. These results suggest that the s±-wave and d-wave pairing states behave similarly in response to the magnetic field and nonmagnetic impurities, therefore, it may be impossible to distinguish them on the basis of the measurements of spin-lattice relaxation rates when a magnetic field and/or impurity scatterings are present.

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CaFe1-xCoxAsF

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Eu0.7Na0.3Fe2As2

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FeTe1-xSx

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