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Spin-Fluctuation-Induced Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior with Suppressed Superconductivity in LiFe1-xCoxAs

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PHYSICAL REVIEW X
Volume 5, Issue 3, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.5.031035

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  1. U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering [DE-SC0012704]
  2. CAS [XDB07000000]
  3. MOST [2010CB923000, 2011CBA001000, 2013CB921700, 2010CB923004, 2011CBA00112]
  4. NSFC [11234014, 11274362, 11220101003, 11474344, 1222433, 11374364]
  5. U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences [DE-FG02-99ER45747]

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We study a series of LiFe1-xCoxAs compounds with different Co concentrations by transport, optical spectroscopy, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance. We observe a Fermi-liquid to non-Fermi-liquid to Fermi-liquid (FL-NFL-FL) crossover alongside a monotonic suppression of the superconductivity with increasing Co content. In parallel to the FL-NFL-FL crossover, we find that both the low-energy spin fluctuations and Fermi surface nesting are enhanced and then diminished, strongly suggesting that the NFL behavior in LiFe1-xCoxAs is induced by low-energy spin fluctuations that are very likely tuned by Fermi surface nesting. Our study reveals a unique phase diagram of LiFe1-xCoxAs where the region of NFL is moved to the boundary of the superconducting phase, implying that they are probably governed by different mechanisms.

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