Magnetic anisotropy in hole-doped superconducting Ba 0.67K 0.33Fe 2As2 probed by polarized inelastic neutron scattering

Abstract

We use polarized inelastic neutron scattering (INS) to study spin excitations of optimally hole-doped superconductor Ba${}_{0.67}$K${}_{0.33}$Fe${}_2$As${}_2$ ($T_c=38$ K). In the normal state, the imaginary part of the dynamic susceptibility, ${\chi }^{\prime \prime }(Q,\omega )$, shows magnetic anisotropy for energies below $\sim$7 meV with c-axis polarized spin excitations larger than that of the in-plane component. Upon entering into the superconducting state, previous unpolarized INS experiments have shown that spin gaps at $\sim$5 and 0.75 meV open at wave vectors $Q=(0.5,0.5,0)$ and $(0.5,0.5,1)$, respectively, with a broad neutron spin resonance at $E_r=15$ meV. Our neutron polarization analysis reveals that the large difference in spin gaps is purely due to different spin gaps in the c-axis and in-plane polarized spin excitations, resulting resonance with different energy widths for the c-axis and in-plane spin excitations. The observation of spin anisotropy in both opitmally electron and hole-doped BaFe${}_2$As${}_2$ is due to their proximity to the AF ordered BaFe${}_2$As${}_2$ where spin anisotropy exists below $T_N$.

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