Unified spin model for magnetic excitations in iron chalcogenides

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2017
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Recent inelastic neutron scattering (INS) measurements on FeSe and Fe(Te1−xSex) have sparked intense debate over the nature of the ground state in these materials. Here we propose an effective bilinear-biquadratic spin model, which is shown to consistently describe the evolution of low-energy spin excitations in FeSe, both under applied pressure and upon Se/Te substitution. The phase diagram, studied using a combination of variational mean-field, flavor-wave calculations and density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG), exhibits a sequence of transitions between the columnar antiferromagnet common to the iron pnictides, the nonmagnetic ferroquadrupolar phase attributed to FeSe, and the double-stripe antiferromagnetic order known to exist in Fe1+yTe. The calculated spin structure factor in these phases mimics closely that observed with INS in the Fe(Te1−xSex) series. In addition to the experimentally established phases, the possibility of incommensurate magnetic order is also predicted.

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Ergueta, Patricia Bilbao, Hu, Wen-Jun and Nevidomskyy, Andriy H.. "Unified spin model for magnetic excitations in iron chalcogenides." Physical Review B, 96, no. 17 (2017) American Physical Society: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.174403.

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