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Zigzag chain structure transition and orbital fluctuations in Ni-based superconductors

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(2012)cite arxiv:1211.3944Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures.

Abstract

We investigate the electronic state and structure transition of BaNi2As2, which shows a similar superconducting phase diagram as Fe-based superconductors. We construct the ten-orbital tight-binding model for BaNi2As2 by using the maximally localized Wannier function method. The Coulomb and quadrupole-quadrupole interactions are treated within the random-phase approximation. We find that the charge susceptibility of quadrupole O_X2-Y2 has the largest peak structure at q = (pi, 0, pi) which is derived from both the in-plane and out-of-plane oscillations of Ni ions. We propose that the antiferro-quadrupole O_X2-Y2 order with q = (pi, 0, pi) is the origin of the zigzag chain structure reported in experiments. The obtained antiferro-quadrupole fluctuations would then be the origin of the strong coupling superconductivity in Ni-based superconductors. We identify similarities and differences between Ni- and Fe-based superconductors.

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