Suppression of magnetic order in CaCo1.86As2 with Fe substitution: Magnetization, neutron diffraction, and x-ray diffraction studies of Ca(Co1-xFex)yAs2

  • W. T. Jayasekara
  • , Abhishek Pandey
  • , A. Kreyssig
  • , N. S. Sangeetha
  • , A. Sapkota
  • , K. Kothapalli
  • , V. K. Anand
  • , W. Tian
  • , D. Vaknin
  • , D. C. Johnston
  • , R. J. McQueeney
  • , A. I. Goldman
  • , B. G. Ueland

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    Abstract

    Magnetization, neutron diffraction, and high-energy x-ray diffraction results for Sn-flux grown single-crystal samples of Ca(Co1-xFex)yAs2, 0≤x≤1, 1.86≤y≤2, are presented and reveal that A-type antiferromagnetic order, with ordered moments lying along the c axis, persists for x 0.12(1). The antiferromagnetic order is smoothly suppressed with increasing x, with both the ordered moment and Néel temperature linearly decreasing. Stripe-type antiferromagnetic order does not occur for x≤0.25, nor does ferromagnetic order for x up to at least x=0.104, and a smooth crossover from the collapsed-tetragonal (cT) phase of CaCo1.86As2 to the tetragonal (T) phase of CaFe2As2 occurs. These results suggest that hole doping CaCo1.86As2 has a less dramatic effect on the magnetism and structure than steric effects due to substituting Sr for Ca.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number064425
    JournalPhysical Review B
    Volume95
    Issue number6
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Feb 23 2017

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