Affiliation:
1. School of Physics and Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 China
2. Department of Physics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Opto‐electronic Functional Materials & Micro‐nano Devices Renmin University of China Beijing 100872 China
Abstract
AbstractUnraveling the magnetic order in iron chalcogenides and pnictides at atomic scale is pivotal for understanding their unconventional superconducting pairing mechanism, but is experimentally challenging. Here, by utilizing spin‐polarized scanning tunneling microscopy, real‐space spin contrasts are successfully resolved to exhibit atomically unidirectional stripes in Fe4Se5 ultrathin films, the plausible closely related compound of bulk FeSe with ordered Fe‐vacancies, which are grown by molecular beam epitaxy. As is substantiated by the first‐principles electronic structure calculations, the spin contrast originates from a pair‐checkerboard antiferromagnetic ground state with in‐plane magnetization, which is modulated by a spin–lattice coupling. These measurements further identify three types of nanoscale antiferromagnetic domains with distinguishable spin contrasts, which are subject to thermal fluctuations into short‐ranged patches at elevated temperatures. This work provides promising opportunities in understanding the emergent magnetic order and the electronic phase diagram for FeSe‐derived superconductors.
Funder
National Key Research and Development Program of China
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,General Materials Science
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