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Dichotomy between orbital and magnetic nematic instabilities in BaFe2S3

S. Hosoi1,2,*, T. Aoyama3,*, K. Ishida1, Y. Mizukami1, K. Hashizume3, S. Imaizumi3, Y. Imai3, K. Ohgushi3, Y. Nambu4 et al.

M. Kimata4, S. Kimura4, and T. Shibauchi1

  • 1Department of Advanced Materials Science, the University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan
  • 2Graduate school of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
  • 3Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
  • 4Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan

  • *These authors contributed equally to this work.
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Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043293 – Published 30 November, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043293

Abstract

Nematic orders emerge nearly universally in iron-based superconductors, but elucidating their origins is challenging because of intimate couplings between orbital and magnetic fluctuations. The iron-based ladder material BaFe2S3, which superconducts under pressure, exhibits antiferromagnetic order below TN∼117 K and a weak resistivity anomaly at T*∼180 K, whose nature remains elusive. Here we report angle-resolved magnetoresistance (MR) and elastoresistance (ER) measurements in BaFe2S3, which reveal distinct changes at T*. We find that MR anisotropy and ER nematic response are both suppressed near T*, implying that an orbital order promoting isotropic electronic states is stabilized at T*. Such an isotropic state below T* competes with the antiferromagnetic order, which is evidenced by the nonmonotonic temperature dependence of nematic fluctuations. In contrast to the cooperative nematic orders in spin and orbital channels in iron pnictides, the present competing orders can provide an alternative platform to identify the separate roles of orbital and magnetic fluctuations.

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Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043293– Published 30 November, 2020
  • Received 1 March 2019
  • Revised 30 October 2020
  • Accepted 4 November 2020
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