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Pressure‐Driven Enthalpic and Lifshitz Transition in 122‐Pnictides
Author(s) -
Quader K.F.,
Widom M.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
contributions to plasma physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1521-3986
pISSN - 0863-1042
DOI - 10.1002/ctpp.201400104
Subject(s) - tetragonal crystal system , condensed matter physics , coulomb , physics , phase transition , fermi surface , function (biology) , phase (matter) , topology (electrical circuits) , superconductivity , materials science , quantum mechanics , mathematics , combinatorics , electron , evolutionary biology , biology
Iron‐arsenic pnictides are a class of compounds in which strong Coulomb interactions manifest in novel prop¬erties. We discuss basic ideas behind a Lifshitz transition and review salient properties of 122‐pnictides ( A Fe 2 As 2 ; A = Ca, Sr, Ba, Ra). Using T = 0 first principles total energy calculations, as a function of hydro¬static pressure, we show that several pressure‐driven anomalies, and the tetragonal (T) to collapsed tetragonal (cT) phase transition in the 122‐pnictides family, can be understood as consequences of Lifshitz transitions arising from nontrivial changes in Fermi surface topology. We also show that several features found in our calculations, namely, enthalpic, magnetic and T‐cT transitions, are universal to the 122‐pnictides. (© 2015 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)