Browsing by Author "Wu, S.-F."

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    In-plane electronic anisotropy resulted from ordered magnetic moment in iron-based superconductors
    (American Physical Society, 2020) Wu, S.-F.; Zhang, W.-L.; Thorsmølle, V.K.; Chen, G.F.; Tan, G.T.; Dai, P.C.; Shi, Y.G.; Jin, C.Q.; Shibauchi, T.; Kasahara, S.; Matsuda, Y.; Sefat, A.S.; Ding, H.; Richard, P.; Blumberg, G.
    We study the in-plane electronic anisotropy in the parent compounds of several families of Fe-based superconductors (BaFe2As2, EuFe2As2, NaFeAs, LiFeAs, FeSe, and LaFeAsO) by polarization-resolved Raman scattering. We measure intensity of the fully symmetric c-axis vibration of As atom mode in the XY scattering geometry and notice that the mode's intensity is significantly enhanced below the magnetostructural transition only for compounds showing magnetic ordering. In particular, we find that the intensity ratio of this As phonon in the XY vs. XX scattering geometries is proportional to the square of the ordered magnetic moment. We relate this As phonon intensity enhancement below the Néel temperature in iron pnictides to in-plane electronic anisotropy induced by the collinear spin-density wave order.
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    Superconductivity and electronic fluctuations in Ba1−xKxFe2As2 studied by Raman scattering
    (American Physical Society, 2017) Wu, S.-F.; Richard, P.; Ding, H.; Wen, H.-H.; Tan, Guotai; Wang, Meng; Zhang, Chenglin; Dai, Pengcheng; Blumberg, G.
    Using polarization-resolved electronic Raman scattering we study underdoped, optimally doped, and overdoped Ba1−xKxFe2As2 samples in the normal and superconducting states. We show that low-energy nematic fluctuations are universal for all studied doping ranges. In the superconducting state, we observe two distinct superconducting pair-breaking peaks corresponding to one large and one small superconducting gap. In addition, we detect a collective mode below the superconducting transition in the B2g channel and determine the evolution of its binding energy with doping. Possible scenarios are proposed to explain the origin of the in-gap collective mode. In the superconducting state of the underdoped regime, we detect a reentrance transition below which the spectral background changes and the collective mode vanishes.