Nematic superconductivity from selective orbital pairing in iron pnictide single crystals

Klemm, Mason L.; Mozaffari, Shirin; Zhang, Rui; Casas, Brian W.; Koshelev, Alexei E.; Yi, Ming; Balicas, Luis; Dai, Pengcheng

doi:10.1016/j.xcrp.2024.101816

Title: Nematic superconductivity from selective orbital pairing in iron pnictide single crystals

Journal Article · Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2024 · Cell Reports Physical Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2024.101816· OSTI ID:2287713

Klemm, Mason L.; Mozaffari, Shirin; Zhang, Rui; Casas, Brian W.; Koshelev, Alexei E.; Yi, Ming; Balicas, Luis;

The discovery of iron-based superconductors proves that high-temperature superconductivity is not limited to cuprates. Here, we use transport measurements to determine the in-plane anisotropy of the upper critical field (H_c2) in detwinned superconducting Ba(Fe_1-xM_x)₂As₂ (M = Co, Ni) single crystals. In previous measurements on twinned single crystals, the charge carrier doping dependence of the H_c2 anisotropy for fields along inter-planar and in-plane directions was found to increase in the over-doped regime. For underdoped samples with a spin-nematic phase below the tetragonal-to-orthorhombic structural transition temperature, we find that H_c2 along the a axis is considerably lower than that along the b axis. This H_c2 anisotropy disappears in the over-doped regime when the system becomes tetragonal. By combining these results with previous works, we conclude that superconductivity in underdoped iron pnictides is orbital selective—with a dominant contribution from electrons with the d_yz orbital character and from being intimately associated with spin excitations.

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Research Organization:: Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012311; SC0002613; GBMF9470; DMR-1644779

OSTI ID:: 2287713

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2317794

Journal Information:: Cell Reports Physical Science, Journal Name: Cell Reports Physical Science Vol. 5 Journal Issue: 2; ISSN 2666-3864

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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