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Magnetic states of the five-orbital Hubbard model for one-dimensional iron-based superconductors...

by Qinlong Luo, Kateryna Foyevtsova, German D Samolyuk, Fernando A Reboredo, G Dagotto
Publication Type
Journal
Journal Name
Physical Review B
Publication Date
Page Number
035128
Volume
90
Issue
3

Themagneticphasediagramsofmodelsforquasi-one-dimensionalcompoundsbelongingtotheiron-based-superconductorfamilyarepresented.Thefive-orbitalHubbardmodelandthereal-spaceHartree–Fockapproximationareemployed,supplementedbydensityfunctionaltheorytoobtainthehoppingamplitudes.PhasediagramsareconstructedbyvaryingtheHubbardUandHundJcouplingsatzerotemperature.Thestudyiscarriedoutatelectronicdensity(electronsperiron)n=5.0,whichisofrelevanceforthealready-knownmaterialTlFeSe2,andalsoatn=6.0,whererepresentativecompoundsstillneedtobesynthesized.Atn=5.0thereisacleardominanceofstaggeredspinorderalongthechaindirection.Atn=6.0andwiththerealisticHundcouplingJ/U=0.25,thephasediagramisfarricher,includingavarietyof“block”statesinvolvingferromagneticclustersthatareantiferromagneticallycoupled,inqualitativeagreementwithrecentdensitymatrixrenormalizationgroupcalculationsforthethree-orbitalHubbardmodelinadifferentcontext.Theseblockstatesarisefromthecompetitionbetweenferromagneticorder(inducedbydoubleexchangeandprevailingatlargeJ/U)andantiferromagneticorder(dominatingatsmallJ/U).Thedensityofstatesandorbitalcompositionsofthemanyphasesarealsoprovided.