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Neutron scattering investigation of the magnetic order in single crystalline BaFe2As2

Iron-Based Superconductors

M Kofu1, Y Qiu2,3, Wei Bao4,6, S-H Lee1, S Chang2, T Wu5, G Wu5 and X H Chen5

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The magnetic structure of BaFe2As2 was determined from polycrystalline neutron diffraction measurements soon after the ThCr2Si2-type FeAs-based superconductors were discovered. Both the moment direction and the in-plane antiferromagnetic wavevector are along the longer a-axis of the orthorhombic unit cell. There is only one combined magnetostructural transition at ~140 K. However, a later single-crystal neutron diffraction work reported contradicting results. Here, we show neutron diffraction results from a single-crystal sample, grown by a self-flux method, that support the original polycrystalline work.


PACS

75.25.+z Spin arrangements in magnetically ordered materials (including neutron and spin-polarized electron studies, synchrotron-source x-ray scattering, etc.)

74.25.Ha Magnetic properties

75.30.Kz Magnetic phase boundaries (including magnetic transitions, metamagnetism, etc.)

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Superconductivity

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Dates

Issue 5 (May 2009)

Received 14 November 2008

Published 5 May 2009



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