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Title: Discovery of orbital-selective Cooper pairing in FeSe

Journal Article · · Science

The superconductor iron selenide (FeSe) is of intense interest owing to its unusual nonmagnetic nematic state and potential for high-temperature superconductivity. But its Cooper pairing mechanism has not been determined. We used Bogoliubov quasiparticle interference imaging to determine the Fermi surface geometry of the electronic bands surrounding the Γ = (0, 0) and X = (π/ a Fe , 0) points of FeSe and to measure the corresponding superconducting energy gaps. We show that both gaps are extremely anisotropic but nodeless and that they exhibit gap maxima oriented orthogonally in momentum space. Moreover, by implementing a novel technique, we demonstrate that these gaps have opposite sign with respect to each other. This complex gap configuration reveals the existence of orbital-selective Cooper pairing that, in FeSe, is based preferentially on electrons from the d yz orbitals of the iron atoms.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Univ. College Cork, Cork (Ireland); The Lundbeck Foundation; Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
Grant/Contract Number:
award265830; FG02-05ER46236,DE-AC02-07CH11358,DE-2009-BNL-PM015; SC0012704; GBMF4544; GBMF4411; FG02-05ER46236; A9318; AC02-07CH11358; 2009-BNL-PM015
OSTI ID:
1435674
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1426451
Report Number(s):
BNL-203333-2018-JAAM; /sci/357/6346/75.atom
Journal Information:
Science, Journal Name: Science Vol. 357 Journal Issue: 6346; ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher:
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 226 works
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