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Ferroelasticity, anelasticity and magnetoelastic relaxation in Co-doped iron pnictide: Ba(Fe0.957Co0.043)2As2

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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
卷 31, 期 15, 页码 -

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/aafe29

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pnictide; magnetoelastic coupling; strain relaxation; ferroelastic twin walls; superconductivity

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  1. Natural Environment Research Council
  2. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of Great Britain [EP/I036079/1, NE/B505738/1, NE/F17081/1]
  3. EPSRC Strategic Equipment Grant [EP/M000524/1]
  4. Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability
  5. EPSRC [EP/M000524/1, EP/I036079/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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The hypothesis that strain has a permeating influence on ferroelastic, magnetic and superconducting transitions in 122 iron pnictides has been tested by investigating variations of the elastic and anelastic properties of a single crystal of Ba(Fe0.957Co0.043)(2)As-2 by resonant ultrasound spectroscopy as a function of temperature and externally applied magnetic field. Non-linear softening and stiffening of C-66 in the stability fields of both the tetragonal and orthorhombic structures has been found to conform quantitatively to the Landau expansion for a pseudoproper ferroelastic transition which is second order in character. The only exception is that the transition occurs at a temperature (Ts approximate to 69K) similar to 10K above the temperature at which C-66 would extrapolate to zero (T-cE* approximate to 59K). An absence of anomalies associated with antiferromagnetic ordering below T-N approximate to 60 K implies that coupling of the magnetic order parameter with shear strain is weak. It is concluded that linear-quadratic coupling between the structural/electronic and antiferromagnetic order parameters is suppressed due to the effects of local heterogeneous strain fields arising from the substitution of Fe by Co. An acoustic loss peak at similar to 50-55 K is attributed to the influence of mobile ferroelastic twin walls that become pinned by a thermally activated process involving polaronic defects. Softening of C-66 by up to similar to 6% below the normal-superconducting transition at T-c approximate to 13K demonstrates an effective coupling of the shear strain with the order parameter for the superconducting transition which arises indirectly as a consequence of unfavourable coupling of the superconducting order parameter with the ferroelastic order parameter. Ba(Fe0.957Co0.043)(2)As-2 is representative of 122 pnictides as forming a class of multiferroic superconductors in which elastic strain relaxations underpin almost all aspects of coupling between the structural, magnetic and superconducting order parameters and of dynamic properties of the transformation microstructures they contain.

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