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Optical study of Dirac fermions and related phonon anomalies in the antiferromagnetic compound CaFeAsF

Xu, Bing ; Xiao, H. ; Gao, B. ; Ma, Y. H. ; Mu, G. ; Marsik, Premysl ; Sheveleva, Evgeniia ; Lyzwa, Fryderyk ; Dai, Y. M. ; Lobo, R. P. S. M. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review B, 2018, vol. 97, no. 19, p. 195110

We performed optical studies on CaFeAsF single crystals, a parent compound of the 1111-type iron-based superconductors that undergoes a structural phase transition from tetragonal to orthorhombic at Ts=121 K and a magnetic one to a spin density wave (SDW) state at TN=110 K. In the low-temperature optical conductivity spectrum, after the subtraction of a narrow Drude peak, we observe a...

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Lattice-mediated magnetic order melting in ${\mathrm{TbMnO}}_{3}$

Baldini, Edoardo ; Kubacka, Teresa ; Mallett, Benjamin P. P. ; Ma, Chao ; Koohpayeh, Seyed M. ; Zhu, Yimei ; Bernhard, Christian ; Johnson, Steven L. ; Carbone, Fabrizio

In: Physical Review B, 2018, vol. 97, no. 12, p. 125149

Recent ultrafast magnetic-sensitive measurements [Johnson et al., Phys. Rev. B 92, 184429 (2015); Bothschafter et al., Phys. Rev. B 96, 184414 (2017)] have revealed a delayed melting of the long-range cycloid spin order in TbMnO3 following photoexcitation across the fundamental Mott-Hubbard gap. The microscopic mechanism behind this slow transfer of energy from the photoexcited carriers to...

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Evidence for precursor superconducting pairing above T c in underdoped cuprates from an analysis of the in-plane infrared response

Šopík, B. ; Chaloupka, Jiří ; Dubroka, Adam ; Bernhard, Christian ; Munzar, Dominik

In: New Journal of Physics, 2015, vol. 17, no. 5, p. 053022

We performed calculations of the in-plane infrared response of underdoped cuprate superconductors to clarify the origin of a characteristic dip feature which occurs in the published experimental spectra of the real part of the in-plane conductivity below an onset temperature ${{T}^{{\rm ons}}}$ considerably higher than ${{T}_{{\rm c}}}$. We provide several arguments, based on a detailed...

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Engineering spin propagation across a hybrid organic/inorganic interface using a polar layer

Schulz, Leander ; Nuccio, L. ; Willis, M. ; Desai, P. ; Shakya, P. ; Kreouzis, T. ; Malik, Vivek Kumar ; Bernhard, Christian ; Pratt, F. L. ; Morley, N. A. ; Suter, A. ; Nieuwenhuys, G. J. ; Prokscha, T. ; Morenzoni, E. ; Gillin, W. P. ; Drew, Alan J.

In: Nature Materials, 2011, vol. 10, p. 39–44

Spintronics has shown a remarkable and rapid development, for example from the initial discovery of giant magnetoresistance in spin valves (Baibich, M. N. et al. Giant magnetoresistance of (001)Fe/(001)Cr magnetic superlattices. Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2472–2475, 1988) to their ubiquity in hard-disk read heads in a relatively short time. However, the ability to fully harness electron spin as...

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Temperature dependence of the superconductivity-induced collective mode in the c-axis infrared spectra of bilayer cuprate superconductors

Munzar, Dominik ; Chaloupka, Jiří ; Bernhard, Christian ; Dubroka, Adam ; Vašátko, J.

In: Physica C: Superconductivity, 2010, p. -

The low-temperature spectra of the c-axis infrared conductivity of bilayer high-Tc cuprate superconductors (HTCS) exhibit two superconductivity-induced modes [Li Yu et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 (2008) 177004; and references therein]. Both can be understood in terms of a microscopic theory developed recently [J. Chaloupka, C. Bernhard, D. Munzar, Phys. Rev. B 79 (2009) 184513]. Here we summarize...

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Muon spin rotation study of magnetism and superconductivity in BaFe2−xCoxAs₂ and Pr1−xSrxFeAsO

Bernhard, Christian ; Drew, Alan J. ; Schulz, Leander ; Malik, Vivek Kumar ; Rössle, Matthias ; Niedermayer, Ch. ; Wolf, Th. ; Varma, G. D. ; Mu, G. ; Wen, H.-H. ; Liu, H. ; Wu, G. ; Chen, X. H.

In: New Journal of Physics, 2009, vol. 11, p. 055050

We present a muon spin rotation (μSR) study of the magnetic and superconducting properties of single crystals of electron-doped BaFe2−xCoxAs₂ with x = 0.08, 0.20 and 0.25 (Tc = 9, 25 and 20 K) and of polycrystalline hole-doped Pr1−xSrxFeAsO with x = 0 and 0.2 (Tc = 15...

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Superconducting energy gap and c-axis plasma frequency of (Nd,Sm)FeAsO0.82F0.18 superconductors from infrared ellipsometry

Dubroka, Adam ; Kim, Kyung Wan ; Rössle, Matthias ; Malik, Vivek Kumar ; Drew, Alan J. ; Liu, R. H. ; Wu, G. ; Chen, X. H. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review Letters, 2008, vol. 101, no. 9, p. 097011

We present far-infrared ellipsometric measurements of polycrystalline samples of the pnictide superconductor RFeAsO0.82F0.18 (R=Nd and Sm). We find evidence that the electronic properties are strongly anisotropic such that the optical spectra are dominated by the weakly conducting c-axis response similar to the cuprate high-temperature superconductors....