Unconventional temperature enhanced magnetism in Fe1.1Te |
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Authors: | Zaliznyak Igor A Xu Zhijun Tranquada John M Gu Genda Tsvelik Alexei M Stone Matthew B |
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Affiliation: | CMPMSD, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA. zaliznyak@bnl.gov |
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Abstract: | Our inelastic neutron scattering study of spin excitations in iron telluride reveals remarkable thermal evolution of the collective magnetism. In the temperature range relevant for the superconductivity in FeTe(1-x)Se(x) materials, where the local-moment behavior is dominated by liquidlike correlations of emergent spin plaquettes, we observe unusual, marked increase of magnetic fluctuations upon heating. The effective spin per Fe at T ≈ 10 K, in the phase with weak antiferromagnetic order, corresponds to S ≈ 1, consistent with the recent analyses that emphasize importance of Hund's coupling [K. Haule and G. Kotliar, New J. Phys. 11, 025021 (2009).]. However, it grows to S ≈ 3/2 in the high-T disordered phase, suggestive of the Kondo-type behavior, where local magnetic moments are entangled with the itinerant electrons. |
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