Neutron scattering study of the oxypnictide superconductor L(4)

The newly discovered superconductor La(O,F)FeAs (Tc = 26 K) was investigated using the neutron scattering technique. No spin-density-wave (SDW) order was observed in the normal state nor in the superconducting state, both with and without an applied magnet

themeasuredS(Q,ω)≈χ (Q,ω)/πcanbecompareddirectlytothetheoreticalχ (Q,ω)inFig.4.Powderav-eragingwillenhancethemeasuredintensityatQlargerthan|QAFM|tosomeextent,however,thesharpreso-nancepeakwillbelittlea ected.

Wedidnotobservethestronglyenhancedsupercon-ductingresonancepeakinLaO0.87F0.13FeAsat1.6K.Theupperlimitforintensityofsucharesonancepeakis0.5(1)µ2theB/meVsrperFefromourdata(seethebluecurveinbottomframe).Ifthepredictedresonancepeakisasstrongasintheunconventionalsuperconduc-torCeCoIn5,～30µ2ofmagnitudestrongerB/meVsrperCo[36],beingtwoor-dersthanourmeasurementlimit,itwouldhavebeenobservedinourexperiments.Ontheotherhand,iftheintensityoftheresonancepeakinLa(O,F)FeAsissimilartothatinYBa2Cu3O6+x,～0.2µ2B/meVsrperCu[37],itwouldnotbeobservedinourmeasurements.Theoretically,thepeakintensityfortheresonanceinLa(O,F)FeAswiththeextendeds-wavepairingdependsonthechoiceofdampingfactorandcorrectionsbeyondtherandom-phase-approximation[27].Forthed-wavepairingalsodiscussedin[27],themod-estchangeinthespindynamicswouldbebeyondthesensitivityofthispolycrystallineexperiment.

Insummary,thespin-density-waveorderofLaOFeAsisdisplacedbysuperconductivityinLaO0.87F0.13FeAs.Thepeaksinthetheoreticalphonondensityofstatesat12and17meVareobservedinourphononmea-surements.Thetheoryofphononmediatedsupercon-ductivity,whichfailstoproducethehighTC≈26K,thusisbasedonreliablephononcalculation.Ourexperi-mentssetanupperlimitof0.5µ2B/meVsrperFefortheresonancepeakinthespinexcitationsattheantiferro-magneticwavevector.Unconventionalextendeds-wavesuperconductivitymediatedbyspin uctuationsiscon-strainedbythelimit.

WewouldliketothankD.J.SinghandM.-H.DuforprovidingtheoreticalPDOSdata.WorkatLANLissupportedbyU.S.DOE,atUSTCbytheNaturalScienceFoundationofChina,MinistryofScienceandTechnologyofChina(973ProjectNo:2006CB601001)andbyNationalBasicResearchProgramofChina(2006CB922005).TheDCSatNISTispartiallysup-portedbyNSFunderAgreementNo.DMR-0454672.

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