2017年6月
Critical Slowing Down of Quadrupole and Hexadecapole Orderings in Iron Pnictide Superconductor
JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
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- 86
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- 6
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.7566/JPSJ.86.064706
- 出版者・発行元
- PHYSICAL SOC JAPAN
Ultrasonic measurements have been carried out to investigate the critical dynamics of structural and superconducting transitions due to degenerate orbital bands in iron pnictide compounds with the formula Ba(Fe1-xCox)(2)As-2. The attenuation coefficient alpha(L[110]) of the longitudinal ultrasonic wave for (C-11 + C-12 + 2C(66))/2 for x = 0.036 reveals the critical slowing down of the relaxation time around the structural transition at T-s = 65K, which is caused by ferro-type ordering of the quadrupole Ox'2-y'2 coupled to the strain e(xy). The attenuation coefficient alpha(66) of the transverse ultrasonic wave for C-66 for x = 0.071 also exhibits the critical slowing down around the superconducting transition at T-SC = 23K, which is caused by ferro-type ordering of the hexadecapole H-z(alpha)(r(i), r(j)) = O-x'y' (r(i))Ox'2-y'2(r(j)) + Ox'2-y'2(r(i))O-x'y' (r(j)) of the bound two-electron state coupled to the rotation.xy. It is proposed that the hexadecapole ordering associated with the superconductivity brings about spontaneous rotation of the macroscopic superconducting state with respect to the host tetragonal lattice.
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- DOI : 10.7566/JPSJ.86.064706
- ISSN : 0031-9015
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000402658200024