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Strong local moment antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations in V-doped LiFeAs

Zhuang Xu, Guangyang Dai, Yu Li, Zhiping Yin, Yan Rong, Long Tian, Panpan Liu, Hui Wang, Lingyi Xing, Yuan Wei, Ryoichi Kajimoto, Kazuhiko Ikeuchi, D. L. Abernathy, Xiancheng Wang, Changqing Jin, Xingye Lu, Guotai Tan, Pengcheng Dai

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Abstract We use neutron scattering to study Vanadium (hole)-doped LiFe1−xVxAs. In the undoped state, LiFeAs exhibits superconductivity at Tc = 18 K and transverse incommensurate spin excitations similar to electron overdoped iron pnictides. Upon Vanadium doping to form LiFe0.955V0.045, the transverse incommensurate spin excitations in LiFeAs transform into longitudinally elongated ones in a similar fashion to that of potassium (hole)-doped Ba0.7K0.3Fe2As2 but with dramatically enhanced magnetic scattering and elimination of superconductivity. This is different from the suppression of the overall magnetic excitations in hole-doped BaFe2As2 and the enhancement of superconductivity near optimal hole doping. These results are consistent with density function theory plus dynamic mean field theory calculations, suggesting that Vanadium doping in LiFeAs may induce an enlarged effective magnetic moment Seff with a spin crossover ground state arising from the inter-orbital scattering of itinerant electrons.
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