Anisotropy of Electrical Transport in Pnictide Superconductors Studied Using Monte Carlo Simulations of the Spin-Fermion Model

Shuhua Liang, Gonzalo Alvarez, Cengiz Şen, Adriana Moreo, and Elbio Dagotto
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 047001 – Published 26 July 2012

Abstract

An undoped three-orbital spin-fermion model for the Fe-based superconductors is studied via Monte Carlo techniques in two-dimensional clusters. At low temperatures, the magnetic and one-particle spectral properties are in agreement with neutron and photoemission experiments. Our main results are the resistance versus temperature curves that display the same features observed in BaFe2As2 detwinned single crystals (under uniaxial stress), including a low-temperature anisotropy between the two directions followed by a peak at the magnetic ordering temperature, that qualitatively appears related to short-range spin order and concomitant Fermi surface orbital order.

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  • Received 29 November 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.047001

© 2012 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Shuhua Liang1,2, Gonzalo Alvarez3, Cengiz Şen1,2, Adriana Moreo1,2, and Elbio Dagotto1,2

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
  • 2Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
  • 3Computer Science and Mathematics Division and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA

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Vol. 109, Iss. 4 — 27 July 2012

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