Ultrafast above-transition-temperature resurrection of spin density wave driven by coherent phonon generation in BaFe As

Abstract

A model incorporating the time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau theory of ultrafast cooperative interplay among charge, spin, and lattice is presented for the pnictide superconductor BaFe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ . Under the ultrafast optical pumping, a pronounced spin–phonon coupling is found to drive the reconstruction of spin density wave (SDW) at $T>{{T}_{s}}$ ( ${{T}_{s}}$ : SDW transition temperature) through the coherent phonon generation. First-principles electronic structure calculation confirms that the macroscopically coherent ${{A}_{1g}}$ oscillation of As over a new equilibrium displacement offers a route to the antiferromagnetic SDW state. Our finding explains the recent experimental observation.

Keywords

• BaFe2As2
• spin density wave
• coherent phonon
• time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau theory
• first-principles calculation
• 78.47.J-