Antiferroquadrupolar and Ising-Nematic Orders of a Frustrated Bilinear-Biquadratic Heisenberg Model and Implications for the Magnetism of FeSe

Rong Yu and Qimiao Si
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 116401 – Published 8 September 2015
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Abstract

Motivated by the properties of the iron chalcogenides, we study the phase diagram of a generalized Heisenberg model with frustrated bilinear-biquadratic interactions on a square lattice. We identify zero-temperature phases with antiferroquadrupolar and Ising-nematic orders. The effects of quantum fluctuations and interlayer couplings are analyzed. We propose the Ising-nematic order as underlying the structural phase transition observed in the normal state of FeSe, and discuss the role of the Goldstone modes of the antiferroquadrupolar order for the dipolar magnetic fluctuations in this system. Our results provide a considerably broadened perspective on the overall magnetic phase diagram of the iron chalcogenides and pnictides, and are amenable to tests by new experiments.

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  • Received 26 January 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.116401

© 2015 American Physical Society

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Rong Yu1,2 and Qimiao Si3

  • 1Department of Physics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Opto-electronic Functional Materials and Micro-nano Devices, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
  • 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA

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Vol. 115, Iss. 11 — 11 September 2015

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