Nuclear magnetic resonance investigation of strain-tuned iron-based superconductors (Druckabhängige Untersuchung eisenbasierter Supraleiter mittels Kernspinresonanz)

Abstract

Final report for a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Eigenestelle Grant, summarizing work mainly on uniaxial-pressure-dependent nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) investigations of BaFe${}_2$As${}_2$. We have conducted systematic ${}^{75}$As NMR experiments in BaFe${}_2$As${}_2$ under in-situ controlled conditions of uniaxial pressure. We find that the electric field gradient (EFG), spin--lattice relaxation rate T${}_1^{-1}$, spin--spin relaxation rate T${}_2^{-1}$, and Knight shift $K$ at the As site are sensitive to applied uniaxial pressure. These properties allow us to locally probe the nematic susceptibility, as well as orbital and spin degrees of freedom. Our spectral measurements in the magnetic state provide no evidence for spin reorientation below the T${}_N$ for both positive and negative applied uniaxial pressure up to the point of sample failure.