Université de Fribourg

Muon spin rotation and infrared spectroscopy study of Ba$_{1-x}$Na$_{x}$Fe$_{2}$As$_{2}$

Sheveleva, Evgeniia ; Xu, Bing ; Marsik, Premysl ; Lyzwa, Fryderyk ; Mallett, Benjamin P. P. ; Willa, K. ; Meingast, C. ; Wolf, Th. ; Shevtsova, T. ; Pashkevich, Yu. G. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review B, 2020, vol. 101, no. 22, p. 224515

The magnetic and superconducting properties of a series of underdoped Ba 1 − x Na x Fe 2 As 2 (BNFA) single crystals with 0.19 ≤ x ≤ 0.34 have been investigated with the complementary muon-spin-rotation ( μ SR ) and infrared spectroscopy techniques. The focus has been on the different antiferromagnetic states in the underdoped regime and their competition with superconductivity,...

Université de Fribourg

Muon spin rotation and infrared spectroscopy study of magnetism and superconductivity in ${\mathrm{Ba}}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{K}}_{x}{\mathrm{Fe}}_{2}{\mathrm{As}}_{2}$

Mallett, Benjamin P. P. ; Wang, Chen Nan ; Marsik, Premysl ; Sheveleva, Evgeniia ; Yazdi-Rizi, Meghdad ; Tallon, Jeffery L. ; Adelmann, P. ; Wolf, Th. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review B, 2017, vol. 95, no. 5, p. 054512

Using muon spin rotation and infrared spectroscopy, we study the relation between magnetism and superconductivity in Ba1−xKxFe2As2 single crystals from the underdoped to the slightly overdoped regime. We find that the Fe magnetic moment is only moderately suppressed in most of the underdoped region where it decreases more slowly than the Néel temperature TN. This applies for both the total...

Université de Fribourg

Infrared study of the spin reorientation transition and its reversal in the superconducting state in underdoped ${\mathrm{Ba}}_{1-x}{\mathrm{K}}_{x}{\mathrm{Fe}}_{2}{\mathrm{As}}_{2}$

Mallett, B. P. P. ; Maršík, Premysl ; Yazdi-Rizi, M. ; Wolf, Th. ; Böhmer, A. E. ; Hardy, F. ; Meingast, C. ; Munzar, Dominik ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review Letters, 2015, vol. 115, no. 2, p. 027003

With infrared spectroscopy we investigated the spin-reorientation transition from an orthorhombic antiferromagnetic (o-AF) to a tetragonal AF (t-AF) phase and the reentrance of the o-AF phase in the superconducting state of underdoped Ba1−xKxFe2As2. In agreement with the predicted transition from a single-Q to a double-Q AF structure, we found that a distinct spin density wave develops in the...

Université de Fribourg

Evidence of a Precursor Superconducting Phase at Temperatures as High as 180 K in RBa₂Cu₃O7-δ (R=Y,Gd,Eu) Superconducting Crystals from Infrared Spectroscopy

Dubroka, Adam ; Rössle, Matthias ; Kim, Kyung Wan ; Malik, Vivek Kumar ; Munzar, Dominik ; Basov, D. N. ; Schafgans, A. A. ; Moon, S. J. ; Lin, C. T. ; Haug, D. ; Hinkov, V. ; Keimer, B. ; Wolf, Th. ; Storey, J. G. ; Tallon, Jeffery L. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review Letters, 2011, vol. 106, no. 4, p. 047006

We show that a multilayer analysis of the infrared c-axis response of RBa₂Cu₃O7-δ (R=Y,Gd,Eu) provides important new information about the anomalous normal-state properties of underdoped cuprate high temperature superconductors. In addition to competing correlations which give rise to a pseudogap that depletes the low-energy electronic states below...

Université de Fribourg

Pseudogap and precursor superconductivity in underdoped cuprate high temperature superconductors: A far-infrared ellipsometry study

Dubroka, Adam ; Yu, Li ; Munzar, Dominik ; Kim, KyungWan ; Rössle, Matthias ; Malik, Vivek Kumar ; Lin, C.T. ; Keimer, B. ; Wolf, Th. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: The European Physical Journal - Special Topics, 2010, vol. 188, no. 1, p. 73-88

With the technique of infrared ellipsometry we performed a detailed study of the temperature- and doping dependence of the c-axis response of a series of YBa₂Cu₃O7−δ single crystals. In particular, we explored the anomalous electronic properties at temperatures above the macroscopic superconducting transition temperature, T c, whose conflicting...

Université de Fribourg

Evidence for multiple superconducting gaps in optimally doped BaFe1.87Co0.13As₂ from infrared spectroscopy

Kim, Kyung Wan ; Rössle, Matthias ; Dubroka, Adam ; Malik, Vivek Kumar ; Wolf, Th. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review B, 2010, vol. 81, p. 214508

We performed combined infrared reflection and ellipsometry measurements of the in-plane optical response of single crystals of the pnictide high-temperature superconductor BaFe1.87Co0.13As₂ with Tc=24.5 K. Our experimental data provide evidence for multiple superconducting energy gaps and can be well described in terms of three isotropic gaps with...

Université de Fribourg

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...

Université de Fribourg

Evidence for two separate energy gaps in underdoped high-temperature cuprate superconductors from broadband infrared ellipsometry

Yu, Li ; Munzar, D. ; Boris, A. V. ; Yordanov, P. ; Chaloupka, J. ; Wolf, Th. ; Lin, C. T. ; Keimer, B. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review Letters, 2008, vol. 100, p. 177004

We present broadband infrared ellipsometry measurements of the c-axis conductivity of underdoped RBa₂Cu₃O₇₋δ (R=Y, Nd, and La) single crystals. Our data show that separate energy scales are underlying the redistributions of spectral weight due to the normal state pseudogap and the superconducting gap. Furthermore, they provide evidence that these gaps do not...