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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 99, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.99.054518
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- Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program of The Ames Laboratory [AC02-07CH11358]
- EMIR (Reseau National d'Accelerateurs pour les Etudes des Materiaux sous Irradiation) network [16-2125]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division
- Swiss National Science Foundation through the Postdoc Mobility program
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Low-temperature (22 K) irradiation with 2.5-MeV electrons, creating point defects affecting elastic scattering, was used to study the competition between stripe C-2 and tetragonal C-4 antiferromagnetic phases which exist in a narrow doping range around x = 0.25 in hole-doped Ba1-xKxFe2As2. In nearby compositions outside of this range, at x = 0.22 and x = 0.19, the temperatures of both the concomitant orthorhombic/stripe antiferromagnetic transition T-C2 and the superconducting transition T-c are monotonically suppressed by added disorder at similar rates of about 0.1 K/mu Omega cm, as revealed through using resistivity variation as an intrinsic measure of scattering rate. In a stark contrast, a rapid suppression of the C-4 phase at the rate of 0.24 K/mu Omega cm is found at x = 0.25. Moreover, this suppression of the C-4 phase is accompanied by unusual disorder-induced stabilization of the C-2 phase, determined by resistivity and specific heat measurements. The rate of the C-4 phase suppression is notably higher than the suppression rate of the spin-vortex phase in the Ni-doped CaKFe4As4 (0.16 K/mu Omega cm).
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