Visualizing heavy fermion confinement and Pauli-limited superconductivity in layered CeCoIn5

Gyenis, András; Feldman, Benjamin E.; Randeria, Mallika T.; Peterson, Gabriel A.; Bauer, Eric D.; Aynajian, Pegor; Yazdani, Ali

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-02841-9

Title: Visualizing heavy fermion confinement and Pauli-limited superconductivity in layered CeCoIn₅

Journal Article · Wed Feb 07 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02841-9· OSTI ID:1422922

Gyenis, András ^[1]; Feldman, Benjamin E. ^[1]; Randeria, Mallika T. ^[1]; Peterson, Gabriel A. ^[1]; Bauer, Eric D. ^[2]; Aynajian, Pegor ^[3]; Yazdani, Ali ^[1]

Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Binghamton Univ., NY (United States)

Layered material structures play a key role in enhancing electron–electron interactions to create correlated metallic phases that can transform into unconventional superconducting states. The quasi-two-dimensional electronic properties of such compounds are often inferred indirectly through examination of bulk properties. Here we use scanning tunneling microscopy to directly probe in cross-section the quasi-two-dimensional electronic states of the heavy fermion superconductor CeCoIn₅. Our measurements reveal the strong confined nature of quasiparticles, anisotropy of tunneling characteristics, and layer-by-layer modulated behavior of the precursor pseudogap gap phase. In the interlayer coupled superconducting state, the orientation of line defects relative to the d-wave order parameter determines whether in-gap states form due to scattering. Spectroscopic imaging of the anisotropic magnetic vortex cores directly characterizes the short interlayer superconducting coherence length and shows an electronic phase separation near the upper critical in-plane magnetic field, consistent with a Pauli-limited first-order phase transition into a pseudogap phase.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396; FG02-07ER46419

OSTI ID:: 1422922

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-17-26033

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1723

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