Magnetism in superconducting EuFe2As1.4P 0.6 single crystals studied by local probes

J. Munevar, H. Micklitz, M. Alzamora, C. Argüello, T. Goko, F. L. Ning, T. Munsie, T. J. Williams, A. A. Aczel, G. M. Luke, G. F. Chen, W. Yu, Y. J. Uemura, E. Baggio-Saitovitch

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Abstract

We have studied the magnetism in superconducting single crystals of EuFe2As1.4P0.6 by using the local probe techniques of zero-field muon spin rotation/relaxation and 151Eu/ 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy. All of these measurements reveal magnetic hyperfine fields below the magnetic ordering temperature TM=18K of the Eu2+ moments. The analysis of the data shows that there is a coexistence of antiferromagnetism, resulting from Eu 2+ moments ordered along the crystallographic c-axis, and superconductivity below TSC≈ 10 K. We find indications for a change in the dynamics of the small Fe magnetic moments (∼0.07 μB) at T*≲15K that may be triggering the onset of superconductivity: below T* the Fe magnetic moments seem to be "frozen" within the ab-plane.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)18-22
Number of pages5
JournalSolid State Communications
Volume187
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2014

Funding

This work has been supported by the US NSF under the Materials World Network (MWN: DMR-0502706 and 0806846 ) and the Partnership for International Research and education (PIRE: OISE-0968226 ) programs at Columbia, by Canadian NSERC and CIFAR at McMaster , and by CIAM (CNPq-NSF) , CNPq and FAPERJ at CBPF in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and NSFC and MOST of China: 973 project 2011CB605900 at IOP in Beijing. H. Micklitz acknowledge visitor fellowships of CAPES and CNPq to work at CBPF.

Keywords

  • A. Iron pnictides
  • C. Mössbauer spectroscopy
  • C. μSR
  • D. Superconductivity

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