BARC/PUB/09/0705

 
  Antiferromagnetic ordering and structural phase transition in Ba2 Fe2 As2 with Sn incorporated from the growth flux  
     
 
Author(s)

Su, Y.; Link, P.; Schneidewind, A.; Wolf, Th.; Adelmann, P.; Xiao, Y.; Meven, M.; Mittal, R.; Rotter, M.; Johrendt, D.; Brueckel, Th.; Loewenhaupt, M.

ABSTRACT

Antiferromagnetic ordering and structural phase transition have been investigated via comprehensive neutron and x-ray diffraction on Sn-flux-grown BaFe2As2 single crystals, the A-122 family of FeAs-based high-TC superconductor compounds. The incorporation of Sn in the lattice resulted to an average composition of Ba0.95Sn0.05Fe2As2. A tetragonal-to-orthorhombic structural phase transition and a three-dimensional longrange antiferromagnetic ordering of the iron magnetic moment, with a unique magnetic propagation wave vector k=(1,0,1) have been found to take place at ~90 K. The magnetic moments of iron are aligned along the longer a axis in the low-temperature orthorhombic phase (Fmmm with b<a<c<. Our results thus demon strate that the magnetic structure of the Sn-flux-grown BaFe2As2 single crystal is the same as those in the polycrystalline samples and in other A-122 iron pnictides compounds.We argue that the Sn incorporation in the lattice is responsible for a smaller orthorhombic splitting and lower Néel temperature TN observed in the experiments.

 
 
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