Role of Dirac cones in the anisotropic properties associated with the spin-density wave state of iron pnictides

2025/02/02 by Garima Goyal, Goyal, Garima, Dheeraj Kumar Singh +1
Materials Science · #FOS: Physical sciences #Iron-based superconductors research #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2502.00697

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Abstract

The origin of unusual anisotropic electronic properties in the spin-density wave state of iron pnictides has conventionally been attributed to the breaking of four-fold rotational symmetry associated with the collinear magnetic order. By using a minimal two-orbital model, we show that a significant portion of the contribution to the anisotropy may come from the Dirac cones, which are not far away from the Fermi level. We demonstrate this phenomenon by examining optical conductivity and quasiparticle interference in the Dirac-semimetallic state with spin-density wave order, and the latter can be obtained by choosing appropriate interaction parameters and orbital splitting between the d_xz and d_yz orbitals. We further extend this study to investigate the low-energy spin-wave excitations in the Dirac-semimetallic state with spin-density wave order.

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