High-Energy Damping by Particle-Hole Excitations in the Spin-Wave Spectrum of Iron-Based Superconductors

Abstract

Using a degenerate double-exchange model, we investigate the spin excitation spectra of iron pnictides. The model consists of local spin moments on each Fe site, as well as itinerant electrons from the degenerate $d_{xz}$ and $d_{yz}$ orbitals. The local moments interact with each other through antiferromagnetic $J_1$-$J_2$ Heisenberg interactions, and they couple to the itinerant electrons through a ferromagnetic Hund coupling. We employ the fermionic spinon representation for the local moments and perform a generalized random-phase approximation calculation on both spinons and itinerant electrons. We find that in the $\left(\pi ,0\right)$ magnetically-ordered state, the spin-wave excitation at $\left(\pi ,\pi \right)$ is pushed to a higher energy due to the presence of itinerant electrons, which is consistent with a previous study using the Holstein-Primakoff transformation. In the paramagnetic state, the particle-hole continuum keeps the collective spin excitation near $\left(\pi ,\pi \right)$ at a higher energy even without any $C_4$ symmetry breaking. The implications for recent high temperature neutron scattering measurements will be discussed.

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