Suppression of electron correlations in the collapsed tetragonal phase of Ca Fe 2 As 2 under ambient pressure demonstrated by As 75 NMR/NQR measurements

  • Y. Furukawa
  • , B. Roy
  • , S. Ran
  • , S. L. Bud'Ko
  • , P. C. Canfield

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Abstract

The static and the dynamic spin correlations in the low-temperature collapsed tetragonal and the high-temperature tetragonal phase in CaFe2As2 have been investigated by As75 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) measurements. Through the temperature (T) dependence of the nuclear spin lattice relaxation rates (1/T1) and the Knight shifts, although stripe-type antiferromagnetic (AFM) spin correlations are realized in the high-temperature tetragonal phase, no trace of the AFM spin correlations can be found in the nonsuperconducting, low-temperature, collapsed tetragonal (cT) phase. Given that there is no magnetic broadening in As75 NMR spectra, together with the T-independent behavior of magnetic susceptibility χ and the T dependence of 1/T1Tχ, we conclude that Fe spin correlations are completely quenched statically and dynamically in the nonsuperconducting cT phase in CaFe2As2.

Original languageEnglish
Article number121109
JournalPhysical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume89
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 20 2014

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