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Breakdown of single spin-fluid model in the heavily hole-doped superconductor CsFe2As2

D. Zhao, S. J. Li, N. Z. Wang, J. Li, D. W. Song, L. X. Zheng, L. P. Nie, X. G. Luo, T. Wu, X. H. Chen

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.97.045118 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

Although Fe-based superconductors are correlated electronic systems with multiorbital, previous nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurement suggests that a single spin-fluid model is sufficient to describe its spin behavior. Here, we first observed the breakdown of single spin-fluid model in a heavily hole-doped Fe-based superconductor CsFe2As2 by site-selective NMR measurement. At high-temperature regime, both Knight shift and nuclear spin-lattice relaxation at Cs133 and As75 nuclei exhibit distinct temperature-dependent behavior, suggesting the breakdown of the single spin-fluid model in CsFe2As2. This is ascribed to the coexistence of both localized and itinerant spin degree of freedom at 3d orbitals, which is consistent with the orbital-selective Mott phase. With decreasing temperature, the single spin-fluid behavior is recovered below T*∼75 K due to a coherent state among 3d orbitals. The Kondo liquid scenario is proposed to understand the low-temperature coherent state.

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