Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 80, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.224506
Keywords
antiferromagnetic materials; electrical resistivity; iron compounds; magnetic anisotropy; solid-state phase transformations
Funding
- NSF [DMR-0605769]
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We attribute the structural phase transition (SPT) in the parent compounds of the iron pnictides to orbital ordering. Due to the anisotropy of the d(xz) and d(yz) orbitals in the xy plane, a ferro-orbital ordering makes the orthorhombic structure more energetically favorable, thus inducing the SPT. In this orbital-ordered system, the sites with orbitals that do not order have higher energies. Scattering of the itinerant electrons by these localized two-level systems causes a resistivity anomaly upon the onset of the SPT. The proposed orbital ordering also leads to stripelike antiferromagnetism and anisotropy of the magnetic exchange couplings. This model is quantitatively consistent with available experimental observations.
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