Effect of electron correlations on magnetic excitations in the isovalently doped iron-based superconductor Ba(Fe(1-x)Ru(x))(2)As(2)

Jun Zhao; C R Rotundu; K Marty; M Matsuda; Y Zhao; C Setty; E Bourret-Courchesne; Jiangping Hu; R J Birgeneau

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.147003

Effect of electron correlations on magnetic excitations in the isovalently doped iron-based superconductor Ba(Fe(1-x)Ru(x))(2)As(2)

Phys Rev Lett. 2013 Apr 5;110(14):147003. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.147003. Epub 2013 Apr 5.

Authors

Jun Zhao¹, C R Rotundu², K Marty³, M Matsuda³, Y Zhao⁴, C Setty⁵, E Bourret-Courchesne², Jiangping Hu⁵, R J Birgeneau⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
² Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
³ Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA.
⁴ NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
⁵ Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA.
⁶ Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

PMID: 25167027
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.147003

Abstract

Magnetic correlations in isovalently doped Ba(Fe(1-x)Ru(x))(2)As(2) (x = 0.25, T(c) = 14.5 K; x = 0.35, T(c) = 20 K) are studied by elastic and inelastic neutron scattering techniques. A relatively large superconducting spin gap accompanied by a weak resonance mode is observed in the superconducting state in both samples. In the normal state, the magnetic excitation intensity is dramatically reduced with increasing Ru doping toward the optimally doped regime. Our results favor that the weakening of the electron-electron correlations by Ru doping is responsible for the dampening of the resonance mode, as well as the suppression of the normal state antiferromagnetic correlations near the optimally doped regime in this system.