Magnetic-Field-Induced Spin Nematicity in FeSe1 – x S x and FeSe1 – y Te y Superconductor Systems
- 1 September 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Chinese Physics Letters
Abstract
The angular-dependent magnetoresistance (AMR) of the ab plane is measured on the single crystals of iron-chalcogenide FeSe1-x S x (x = 0, 0.07, 0.13 and 1) and FeSe1-y Te y (y = 0.06, 0.61 and 1) at various temperatures under fields up to 9 T. A pronounced twofold-anisotropic carrier-scattering effect is identified by AMR, and attributed to a magnetic-field-induced spin nematicity that emerges from the tetragonal normal-state regime below a characteristic temperature T (sn). This magnetically polarized spin nematicity is found to be ubiquitous in the isoelectronic FeSe1-x S x and FeSe1-y Te y systems, no matter whether the sample shows an electronic nematic order at T (s) less than or similar to T (sn), or an antiferromagnetic order at T (N) < T (sn), or neither order. Importantly, we find that the induced spin nematicity shows a very different response to sulfur substitution from the spontaneous electronic nematicity: The spin-nematic T (sn) is not suppressed but even enhanced by the substitution, whereas the electronic-nematic T (s) is rapidly suppressed, in the FeSe1-x S x system. Furthermore, we find that the superconductivity is significantly suppressed with the enhancement of the induced spin nematicity in both FeSe1-x S x and FeSe1-y Te y samples.Keywords
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