Electronic Correlations and Unconventional Spectral Weight Transfer in the High-Temperature Pnictide BaFe2xCoxAs2 Superconductor Using Infrared Spectroscopy

A. A. Schafgans, S. J. Moon, B. C. Pursley, A. D. LaForge, M. M. Qazilbash, A. S. Sefat, D. Mandrus, K. Haule, G. Kotliar, and D. N. Basov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 147002 – Published 2 April 2012
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Abstract

We report an infrared optical study of the pnictide high-temperature superconductor BaFe1.84Co0.16As2 and its parent compound BaFe2As2. We demonstrate that electronic correlations are moderately strong and do not change across the spin-density wave transition or with doping. By examining the energy scale and direction of spectral weight transfer, we argue that Hund’s coupling J is the primary mechanism that gives rise to correlations.

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  • Received 15 June 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.147002

© 2012 American Physical Society

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A. A. Schafgans1,*, S. J. Moon1, B. C. Pursley1, A. D. LaForge1, M. M. Qazilbash2, A. S. Sefat3, D. Mandrus3,4, K. Haule5, G. Kotliar5, and D. N. Basov1

  • 1Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA
  • 3Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
  • 4Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
  • 5Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA

  • *aschafgans@physics.ucsd.edu

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Vol. 108, Iss. 14 — 6 April 2012

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