Antiferromagnetic order and its interplay with superconductivity in CaK(Fe1-xMnx)4As4

J M Wilde; A Sapkota; Q-P Ding; M Xu; W Tian; S L Bud'ko; Y Furukawa; A Kreyssig; P C Canfield

doi:10.1088/1361-648X/ace093

Antiferromagnetic order and its interplay with superconductivity in CaK(Fe1-xMn_x)₄As₄

J Phys Condens Matter. 2023 Jun 29;35(39). doi: 10.1088/1361-648X/ace093.

Authors

J M Wilde^{1

2}, A Sapkota¹, Q-P Ding^{1

2}, M Xu^{1

2}, W Tian³, S L Bud'ko^{1

2}, Y Furukawa^{1

2}, A Kreyssig^{1

2

4}, P C Canfield^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Ames National Laboratory, U.S. DOE, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, United States of America.
² Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, United States of America.
³ Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, United States of America.
⁴ Institute for Experimental Physics 4, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44801 Bochum, Germany.

PMID: 37343571
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ace093

Abstract

The magnetic order for several compositions of CaK(Fe1-xMn_x)₄As₄has been studied by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Mössbauer spectroscopy, and neutron diffraction. Our observations for the Mn-doped 1144 compound are consistent with the hedgehog spin vortex crystal (hSVC) order which has previously been found for Ni-dopedCaKFe4As4. The hSVC state is characterized by the stripe-type propagation vectors(π0)and(0π)just as in the doped 122 compounds. The hSVC state preserves tetragonal symmetry at the Fe site, and only this SVC motif with simple antiferromagnetic (AFM) stacking alongcis consistent with all our observations using NMR Mössbauer spectroscopy, and neutron diffraction. We find that the hSVC state in the Mn-doped 1144 compound coexists with superconductivity, and by combining the neutron scattering and Mössbauer spectroscopy data we can infer a quantum phase transition, hidden under the superconducting dome, associated with the suppression of the AFM transition temperature (T_N) to zero forx ≈ 0.01. In addition, unlike several 122 compounds and Ni-doped 1144, the ordered magnetic moment is not observed to decrease at temperatures below the superconducting transition temperature (T_c).

Keywords: antiferromagnetism; iron-based superconductors; quantum phase transition.

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