Publication Date
12-27-2017
Department
Ames Laboratory; Physics and Astronomy
Campus Units
Physics and Astronomy, Ames Laboratory
OSTI ID+
1414976
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.96.214438
Journal Title
Physical Review B
Volume Number
96
Issue Number
21
First Page
214438
Abstract
Double-stripe magnetism [ Q = ( π / 2 , π / 2 ) ] has been proposed as the magnetic ground state for both the iron-telluride and BaTi 2 Sb 2 O families of superconductors. Double-stripe order is captured within a J 1 − J 2 − J 3 Heisenberg model in the regime J 3 ≫ J 2 ≫ J 1 . Intriguingly, besides breaking spin-rotational symmetry, the ground-state manifold has three additional Ising degrees of freedom associated with bond ordering. Via their coupling to the lattice, they give rise to an orthorhombic distortion and to two nonuniform lattice distortions with wave vector ( π , π ) . Because the ground state is fourfold degenerate, modulo rotations in spin space, only two of these Ising bond order parameters are independent. Here, we introduce an effective field theory to treat all Ising order parameters, as well as magnetic order, and solve it within a large- N limit. All three transitions, corresponding to the condensations of two Ising bond order parameters and one magnetic order parameter are simultaneous and first order in three dimensions, but lower dimensionality, or equivalently weaker interlayer coupling, and weaker magnetoelastic coupling can split the three transitions, and in some cases allows for two separate Ising phase transitions above the magnetic one.
Language
en
Department of Energy Subject Categories
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Publisher
Iowa State University Digital Repository, Ames IA (United States)
