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Title: Multi-band mass enhancement towards critical doping in a pnictide superconductor

Abstract

Abstract Near critical doping, high-temperature superconductors exhibit multiple anomalies associated with enhanced electronic correlations and quantum criticality. Quasiparticle mass enhancement approaching optimal doping has been reported in quantum oscillation measurements in both cuprate and pnictide superconductors. Although the data are suggestive of enhanced interactions, the microscopic theory of quantum oscillation measurements near a quantum critical point is not yet firmly established. It is therefore desirable to have a direct thermodynamic measurement of quasiparticle mass. Here we report high-magnetic field measurements of heat capacity in the doped pnictide superconductor BaFe 2 (As 1− x P x ) 2 . We observe saturation of the specific heat at high magnetic field in a broad doping range above optimal doping which enables a direct determination of the electronic density of states recovered when superconductivity is suppressed. Our measurements find a strong total mass enhancement in the Fermi pockets that superconduct. This mass enhancement extrapolates to a mass divergence at a critical doping of x  = 0.28.

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Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1619706
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1526991
Grant/Contract Number:  
DMR-1157490; AC02-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
npj Quantum Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: npj Quantum Materials Journal Volume: 4 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2397-4648
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

Citation Formats

Moir, Camilla Margaret, Riggs, Scott Chandler, Galvis, Jose Augusto, Lian, Xiujun, Giraldo-Gallo, Paula, Chu, Jiun-Haw, Walmsley, Philip, Fisher, Ian Randal, Shekhter, Arkady, and Boebinger, Gregory Scott. Multi-band mass enhancement towards critical doping in a pnictide superconductor. United Kingdom: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1038/s41535-018-0144-x.
Moir, Camilla Margaret, Riggs, Scott Chandler, Galvis, Jose Augusto, Lian, Xiujun, Giraldo-Gallo, Paula, Chu, Jiun-Haw, Walmsley, Philip, Fisher, Ian Randal, Shekhter, Arkady, & Boebinger, Gregory Scott. Multi-band mass enhancement towards critical doping in a pnictide superconductor. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-018-0144-x
Moir, Camilla Margaret, Riggs, Scott Chandler, Galvis, Jose Augusto, Lian, Xiujun, Giraldo-Gallo, Paula, Chu, Jiun-Haw, Walmsley, Philip, Fisher, Ian Randal, Shekhter, Arkady, and Boebinger, Gregory Scott. Thu . "Multi-band mass enhancement towards critical doping in a pnictide superconductor". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-018-0144-x.
@article{osti_1619706,
title = {Multi-band mass enhancement towards critical doping in a pnictide superconductor},
author = {Moir, Camilla Margaret and Riggs, Scott Chandler and Galvis, Jose Augusto and Lian, Xiujun and Giraldo-Gallo, Paula and Chu, Jiun-Haw and Walmsley, Philip and Fisher, Ian Randal and Shekhter, Arkady and Boebinger, Gregory Scott},
abstractNote = {Abstract Near critical doping, high-temperature superconductors exhibit multiple anomalies associated with enhanced electronic correlations and quantum criticality. Quasiparticle mass enhancement approaching optimal doping has been reported in quantum oscillation measurements in both cuprate and pnictide superconductors. Although the data are suggestive of enhanced interactions, the microscopic theory of quantum oscillation measurements near a quantum critical point is not yet firmly established. It is therefore desirable to have a direct thermodynamic measurement of quasiparticle mass. Here we report high-magnetic field measurements of heat capacity in the doped pnictide superconductor BaFe 2 (As 1− x P x ) 2 . We observe saturation of the specific heat at high magnetic field in a broad doping range above optimal doping which enables a direct determination of the electronic density of states recovered when superconductivity is suppressed. Our measurements find a strong total mass enhancement in the Fermi pockets that superconduct. This mass enhancement extrapolates to a mass divergence at a critical doping of x  = 0.28.},
doi = {10.1038/s41535-018-0144-x},
journal = {npj Quantum Materials},
number = 1,
volume = 4,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Thu Feb 21 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Thu Feb 21 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}

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Fig. 1 Fig. 1: Specific heat divided by temperature, C/T, of BaFe2(As0.54P0.46)2 (Tc = 19.5 K). a Magnetic field dependence of C/T at 1.5 K. The gray curve indicates $\sqrt{H}$ behavior which is consistent with phenomenology associated with a superconducting gap with nodes. b Field dependence of C/T plotted against $\sqrt{H}$ atmore » 1.5 K (blue), 1.75 K (green), and 3 K (red). Solid gray lines indicate the two distinct regimes: $\sqrt{H}$ behavior and saturation behavior. The slope of the $\sqrt{H}$ behavior at 1.5 K and 1.75 K is 4.25mJ/mol K2 $\sqrt{T}$ and at 3 K is 4.8mJ/mol K2 $\sqrt{T}$ . The dashed, gray line has a slope of 4.25mJ/mol K2 $\sqrt{T}$ and is provided to compare between the slopes at 1.5 K and 3 K. We define $γ$H as the difference between the saturation value of C/T and C/T at H = 0 given by the extrapolation of the $\sqrt{H}$ behavior. c Temperature dependence of C/T at zero-magnetic field, where the gray line indicates the low temperature specific heat behavior: C/T = $γ$ + $β$T2, from which $γ$bg is extrapolated« less

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