AFeSe2 (A=Tl, K, Rb, or Cs): Iron-based superconducting analog of the cuprates
arXiv:1910.03545 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.184504
Abstract
It has long been a challenging task to find compounds with similar crystal and electronic structures as cuprate superconductors with low dimensionality and strong antiferromagnetic fluctuations. The parent compounds of cuprate superconductors are Mott insulators with strong in-plane antiferromagnetic exchange interactions between Cu moments. Here we show, based on first-principles density functional calculations, that AFeSe2 (A=Tl, K, Rb, or Cs) exhibit many of the physical properties common to the cuprate parent compounds: (1) the FeSe2 layer in AFeSe2 is similar in crystalline and electronic structures to the CuO2 plane in cuprates, although Se atoms are not coplanar to the square Fe-lattice; (2) they are antiferromagnetic insulators, but with relatively small charge excitation gaps; (3) their ground states are Neel antiferromagnetic ordered, similar as in cuprates; and (4) the antiferromagnetic exchange interactions between Fe moments are larger than in other iron-based superconducting materials, but comparable to those in cuprates. Like cuprates, these compounds may become high-Tc superconductors upon doping of charge carriers either by chemical substitution or intercalation or by liquid or solid gating.
arXiv comment6 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
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