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Coexistence and Competition of Magnetism and Superconductivity on the Nanometer Scale in Underdoped BaFe1.89Co0.11As₂

  • Marsik, Premysl University of Fribourg, Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, Switzerland
  • Kim, Kyung Wan University of Fribourg, Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, Switzerland
  • Dubroka, Adam University of Fribourg, Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, Switzerland
  • Rössle, Matthias University of Fribourg, Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, Switzerland
  • Malik, Vivek Kumar University of Fribourg, Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, Switzerland
  • Schulz, Leander University of Fribourg, Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, Switzerland
  • Wang, Chen Nan University of Fribourg, Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, Switzerland
  • Niedermayer, Ch. Laboratorium for Neutron Scattering, Paul Scherrer Institut & ETH Zürich, Villigen, Switzerland
  • Drew, Alan J. University of Fribourg, Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, Switzerland - Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
  • Willis, M. Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
  • Wolf, T. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Festkörperphysik, Germany
  • Bernhard, Christian University of Fribourg, Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, Switzerland
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    27.07.2001
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  • Physical Review Letters. - 2010, vol. 105, no. 5, p. 057001
English We report muon spin rotation (μSR) and infrared spectroscopy experiments on underdoped BaFe1.89Co0.11As₂ which show that bulk magnetism and superconductivity (SC) coexist and compete on the nanometer length scale. Our combined data reveal a bulk magnetic order, likely due to an incommensurate spin density wave (SDW), which develops below Tmag≈32  K and becomes reduced in magnitude (but not in volume) below Tc=21.7  K. A slowly fluctuating precursor of the SDW seems to develop already below the structural transition at Ts≈50  K. The bulk nature of SC is established by the μSR data which show a bulk SC vortex lattice and the IR data which reveal that the majority of low-energy states is gapped and participates in the condensate at T≪Tc.
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Faculté des sciences et de médecine
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Département de Physique
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Physics
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