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NATURE PHYSICS
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 182-186Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS1512
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- Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy
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The origin of the superconducting state in the recently discovered Fe-based materials(1-3) is the subject of intense scrutiny. Neutron scattering(4-7) and NMR (ref. 8) measurements have already demonstrated a strong correlation between magnetism and superconductivity. A central unanswered question concerns the nature of the normal-state spin fluctuations that may be responsible for the pairing. Here we present inelastic neutron scattering measurements from large single crystals of superconducting and non-superconducting Fe1+yTe1-xSex. These measurements indicate a spin fluctuation spectrum dominated by two-dimensional incommensurate excitations extending to energies greater than 250meV. Most importantly, the spin excitations in Fe1+yTe1-xSex have four-fold symmetry about the (1, 0) wavevector (square-lattice (pi,pi) point). Moreover, the excitations are described by the identical wavevector and can be characterized by the same model as the normal-state spin excitations in the high-T-C cuprates(9-11). These results demonstrate commonality between the magnetism in these classes of materials, which perhaps extends to a common origin for superconductivity.
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