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Ca2O3Fe2.6S2: an antiferromagnetic Mott insulator at proximity to bad metal
Han Zhang1, Xiaozhi Wu1, Dandan Li1
1Research & Development Center for Functional Crystals, Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
We report here the first layered iron oxychalcogenide Ca2O3Fe2.6S2 that contains both planar [Ca2FeO2](2+) and [Fe2OS2](2-) layers with the shortest Fe-Fe bond length. This compound is a narrow band gap (~0.073 eV) Mott insulator. The observed antiferromagnetic (AFM) transition at 77 K is due to the ordered Fe vacancies, which can be suppressed by partial substitution of Se for S. We show that the vacancy-free phase Ca2O3Fe3S2 may become a metal with moderate electron correlation comparable to the parent compound LaOFeAs of corresponding superconductors. Our results imply that iron oxychalcogenide can be converted from an AFM Mott insulator into a bad metal like iron pnictides through Fe-Fe bond length shrinking.
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