Evidence of Incoherent Carriers Associated with Resonant Impurity Levels and Their Influence on Superconductivity in the Anomalous Superconductor Pb1-xTlxTe

Giraldo-Gallo, P.; Walmsley, P.; Sangiorgio, B.; Riggs, S. C.; McDonald, R. D.; Buchauer, L.; Fauqué, B.; Liu, Chang; Spaldin, N. A.; Kaminski, A.; Behnia, K.; Fisher, I. R.

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.121.207001

Evidence of Incoherent Carriers Associated with Resonant Impurity Levels and Their Influence on Superconductivity in the Anomalous Superconductor ${Pb}_{1 - x} {Tl}_{x} Te$

Journal Article · Tue Nov 13 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.121.207001· OSTI ID:1487219

Giraldo-Gallo, P. ^[1]; Walmsley, P. ^[2]; Sangiorgio, B. ^[3]; Riggs, S. C. ^[4]; McDonald, R. D. ^[5]; Buchauer, L. ^[6]; Fauqué, B. ^[6]; Liu, Chang ^[7]; Spaldin, N. A. ^[3]; Kaminski, A. ^[7]; Behnia, K. ^[6]; Fisher, I. R. ^[2]

Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Geballe Lab. for Advanced Materials and Dept. of Physics; Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). National High Magnetic Field Lab. (MagLab); Univ. de Los Andes, Bogota (Colombia)
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Geballe Lab. for Advanced Materials and Dept. of Applied Physics
Federal Inst. of Technology, Zurich (Switzerland). Materials Theory
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). National High Magnetic Field Lab. (MagLab)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, Rue Vauquelin, Paris (France). LPEM (UPMC-CNRS)
Ames Lab. and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

We present a combined experimental and theoretical study of the evolution of the Fermi surface of the anomalous superconductor Pb_1-xTl_xTe as a function of thallium concentration, drawing on a combination of magnetotransport measurements (Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations and the Hall coefficient), angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy, and density functional theory calculations of the electronic structure. Our results indicate that for Tl concentrations beyond a critical value, the Fermi energy coincides with resonant impurity states in Pb_1-xTl_xTe , and we rule out the presence of an additional valence band maximum at the Fermi energy. Finally, a comparison to nonsuperconducting Pb_1-xNa_xTe implies that the presence of these impurity states at the Fermi energy provides the enhanced pairing interaction and thus also the anomalously high temperature superconductivity in this material.

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Research Organization:: Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: European Union (EU); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001; AC02-05CH11231; AC02-07CH11358

OSTI ID:: 1487219

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1505999
OSTI ID: 1481940

Report Number(s):: IS-J--9824; LA-UR--17-30756

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 20 Vol. 121; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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