[paper] Hyperfine fields in the BaFe₂As₂ family and their relation to the magnetic moment

Hyperfine fields in the BaFe₂As₂ family and their relation to the magnetic moment

G. Derondeau et al.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.214508

The hyperfine field Bhf and the magnetic properties of the BaFe2As2 family are studied using the fully relativistic Dirac formalism for different types of substitution. The study covers electron doped Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2 and Ba(Fe1−xNix)2As2, hole doped (Ba1−xKx)Fe2As2, and also isovalently doped Ba(Fe1−xRux)2As2 and BaFe2(As1−xPx)2 for a wide range of the concentration x. For the substituted compounds the hyperfine fields show a very strong dependence on the dopant type and its concentration x. Relativistic contributions were found to have a significantly stronger impact for the iron pnictides when compared to bulk Fe. As an important finding, we demonstrate that it is not sensible to relate the hyperfine field Bhf to the average magnetic moment μ of the compound, as it was done in earlier literature.

Tags: hyperfine fieldPRBrelativistic Dirac