Orbital superconductivity, defects, and pinned nematic fluctuations in the doped iron chalcogenide
Abstract
We demonstrate that the differential conductance, dI/dV , measured via spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling microscopy in the doped iron chalcogenide FeSe0.45Te0.55, possesses a series of characteristic features that allow one to extract the orbital structure of the superconducting gaps. This yields nearly isotropic superconducting gaps on the two hole-like Fermi surfaces, and a strongly anisotropic gap on the electron-like Fermi surface. Moreover, we show that the pinning of nematic fluctuations by defects can give rise to a dumbbell-like spatial structure of the induced impurity bound states, and explains the related C2-symmetry in the Fourier transformed differential conductance.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States)
- Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States); Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Univ. Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland (United Kingdom); Univ. College Cork (Ireland)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Emergent Superconductivity (CES); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1412748
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1374652
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-114711-2017-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950; PRBMDO; R&D Project: PM015; KC0207010; TRN: US1800341
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704; 2009-BNL-PM015; FG02-05ER46225
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 96; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Citation Formats
Sarkar, Saheli, Van Dyke, John, Sprau, Peter O., Massee, Freek, Welp, Ulrich, Kwok, Wai-Kwong, Davis, J. C. Seamus, and Morr, Dirk K. Orbital superconductivity, defects, and pinned nematic fluctuations in the doped iron chalcogenide FeSe0.45Te0.55. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.060504.
Sarkar, Saheli, Van Dyke, John, Sprau, Peter O., Massee, Freek, Welp, Ulrich, Kwok, Wai-Kwong, Davis, J. C. Seamus, & Morr, Dirk K. Orbital superconductivity, defects, and pinned nematic fluctuations in the doped iron chalcogenide FeSe0.45Te0.55. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.060504
Sarkar, Saheli, Van Dyke, John, Sprau, Peter O., Massee, Freek, Welp, Ulrich, Kwok, Wai-Kwong, Davis, J. C. Seamus, and Morr, Dirk K. Wed .
"Orbital superconductivity, defects, and pinned nematic fluctuations in the doped iron chalcogenide FeSe0.45Te0.55". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.060504. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1412748.
@article{osti_1412748,
title = {Orbital superconductivity, defects, and pinned nematic fluctuations in the doped iron chalcogenide FeSe0.45Te0.55},
author = {Sarkar, Saheli and Van Dyke, John and Sprau, Peter O. and Massee, Freek and Welp, Ulrich and Kwok, Wai-Kwong and Davis, J. C. Seamus and Morr, Dirk K.},
abstractNote = {We demonstrate that the differential conductance, dI/dV , measured via spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling microscopy in the doped iron chalcogenide FeSe0.45Te0.55, possesses a series of characteristic features that allow one to extract the orbital structure of the superconducting gaps. This yields nearly isotropic superconducting gaps on the two hole-like Fermi surfaces, and a strongly anisotropic gap on the electron-like Fermi surface. Moreover, we show that the pinning of nematic fluctuations by defects can give rise to a dumbbell-like spatial structure of the induced impurity bound states, and explains the related C2-symmetry in the Fourier transformed differential conductance.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.96.060504},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 6,
volume = 96,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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