Incommensurate spin-density wave and multiband superconductivity in Na${}_x$FeAs as revealed by nuclear magnetic resonance

Abstract

We report a ${}^{23}$Na and ${}^{75}$As nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) investigation of Na${}_x$FeAs series ($x=1$, 0.9, 0.8) exhibiting a spin-density wave (SDW) order below $T_{\mathrm{SDW}}=45$, 50 and 43 K for $x=1$, 0.9, 0.8, respectively, and a bulk superconductivity below $T_c\approx 12$ K for x=0.9. Below $T_{\mathrm{SDW}}$, a spin-lattice relaxation reveals the presence of gapless particle-hole excitations in the whole $x$ range, meaning that a portion of the Fermi surface remains gapless. The superconducting fraction as deduced from the bulk susceptibility scales with this portion, while the SDW order parameter as deduced from the NMR linewidth scales inversely with it. The NMR lineshape can only be reproduced assuming an incommensurate (IC) SDW. These findings qualitatively correspond to the mean-field models of competing interband magnetism and intraband superconductivity, which lead to an IC SDW order coexisting with superconductivity in part of the phase diagram.

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