Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 92, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.180504
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- U.S. NSF [DMR-1362219, DMR-1436006, DMR-1309531]
- Robert A. Welch Foundation [C-1839, C-1411]
- Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy
- NSFC Program [11374011]
- CAS [SPRP-B: XDB07020300]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1436006] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1362219, 1309531] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We use inelastic neutron scattering to study the temperature and energy dependence of the spin excitation anisotropy in uniaxial-strained electron-doped iron pnictide BaFe1.9Ni0.1As2 near optimal superconductivity (T-c = 20 K). Our work has been motivated by the observation of in-plane resistivity anisotropy in the paramagnetic tetragonal phase of electron-underdoped iron pnictides under uniaxial pressure, which has been attributed to a spin-driven Ising-nematic state or orbital ordering. Here we show that the spin excitation anisotropy, a signature of the spin-driven Ising-nematic phase, exists for energies below similar to 60 meV in uniaxial-strained BaFe1.9Ni0.1As2. Since this energy scale is considerably larger than the energy splitting of the d(xz) and d(yz) bands of uniaxial-strained Ba(Fe1-xCox)(2)As-2 near optimal superconductivity, spin Ising-nematic correlations are likely the driving force for the resistivity anisotropy and associated electronic nematic correlations.
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