Short-range cluster spin glass near optimal superconductivity in BaFe2−xNixAs2

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High-temperature superconductivity in iron pnictides occurs when electrons are doped into their antiferromagnetic (AF) parent compounds. In addition to inducing superconductivity, electron doping also changes the static commensurate AF order in the undoped parent compounds into short-range incommensurate AF order near optimal superconductivity. Here we use neutron scattering to demonstrate that the incommensurate AF order in BaFe2−xNixAs2 is not a spin-density wave arising from the itinerant electrons in nested Fermi surfaces, but is consistent with a cluster spin glass in the matrix of the superconducting phase. Therefore, optimal superconductivity in iron pnictides coexists and competes with a mesoscopically separated cluster spin glass phase, much different from the homogeneous coexisting AF and superconducting phases in the underdoped regime.

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Lu, Xingye, Tam, David W., Zhang, Chenglin, et al.. "Short-range cluster spin glass near optimal superconductivity in BaFe2−xNixAs2." Physical Review B, 90, no. 2 (2014) American Physical Society: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.024509.

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