Abstract
We report an infrared optical study of the pnictide high-temperature superconductor and its parent compound . 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 is the primary mechanism that gives rise to correlations.
- Received 15 June 2011
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.147002
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