Quasiparticle interference and symmetry of superconducting order parameter in strongly electron-doped iron-based superconductors
Abstract
Motivated by recent experimental reports of significant spin–orbit coupling (SOC) and a signchanging order-parameter in the Li1-xFex(OHFe)1-yZnySe superconductor with only electron pockets present, we study the possible Cooper-pairing symmetries and their quasiparticle interference (QPI) signatures.Wefind that each of the resulting states—s-wave, d-wave and helical p-wave—can have a fully gapped density of states consistent with angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy experiments and, due to SOC, are a mixture of spin singlet and triplet components leading to intraand inter-band features in the QPI signal. Analyzing predicted QPI patterns we find that only the spintriplet dominated even parity A 1g (s-wave) and B 2g (d-wave) pairing states are consistent with the experimental data. Additionally, we show that these states can indeed be realized in a microscopic model with atomic-like interactions and study their possible signatures in spin-resolved STM experiments.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; Russian Federation
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1549199
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1603845
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-05ER46236; ER 463/8-1; N57316180; K2-2017-085
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- New Journal of Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: New Journal of Physics Journal Volume: 21 Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 1367-2630
- Publisher:
- IOP Publishing
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; unconventional superconductivity; iron-based systems; scanning tunneling spectroscopy; superconducting order parameter; spin–orbit coupling; phase sensitive probes
Citation Formats
Böker, Jakob, Volkov, Pavel A., Hirschfeld, P. J., and Eremin, Ilya. Quasiparticle interference and symmetry of superconducting order parameter in strongly electron-doped iron-based superconductors. United Kingdom: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/ab2a82.
Böker, Jakob, Volkov, Pavel A., Hirschfeld, P. J., & Eremin, Ilya. Quasiparticle interference and symmetry of superconducting order parameter in strongly electron-doped iron-based superconductors. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab2a82
Böker, Jakob, Volkov, Pavel A., Hirschfeld, P. J., and Eremin, Ilya. Thu .
"Quasiparticle interference and symmetry of superconducting order parameter in strongly electron-doped iron-based superconductors". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab2a82.
@article{osti_1549199,
title = {Quasiparticle interference and symmetry of superconducting order parameter in strongly electron-doped iron-based superconductors},
author = {Böker, Jakob and Volkov, Pavel A. and Hirschfeld, P. J. and Eremin, Ilya},
abstractNote = {Motivated by recent experimental reports of significant spin–orbit coupling (SOC) and a signchanging order-parameter in the Li1-xFex(OHFe)1-yZnySe superconductor with only electron pockets present, we study the possible Cooper-pairing symmetries and their quasiparticle interference (QPI) signatures.Wefind that each of the resulting states—s-wave, d-wave and helical p-wave—can have a fully gapped density of states consistent with angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy experiments and, due to SOC, are a mixture of spin singlet and triplet components leading to intraand inter-band features in the QPI signal. Analyzing predicted QPI patterns we find that only the spintriplet dominated even parity A 1g (s-wave) and B 2g (d-wave) pairing states are consistent with the experimental data. Additionally, we show that these states can indeed be realized in a microscopic model with atomic-like interactions and study their possible signatures in spin-resolved STM experiments.},
doi = {10.1088/1367-2630/ab2a82},
journal = {New Journal of Physics},
number = 8,
volume = 21,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab2a82
Web of Science
Works referenced in this record:
Symmetry analysis of possible superconducting states in K Fe Se superconductors
journal, July 2011
- Mazin, I. I.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 84, Issue 2
Superconducting Gap Anisotropy in Monolayer FeSe Thin Film
journal, September 2016
- Zhang, Y.; Lee, J. J.; Moore, R. G.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 117, Issue 11
Interpocket Pairing and Gap Symmetry in Fe-Based Superconductors with Only Electron Pockets
journal, June 2012
- Khodas, M.; Chubukov, A. V.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 24
High-temperature superconductivity in potassium-coated multilayer FeSe thin films
journal, June 2015
- Miyata, Y.; Nakayama, K.; Sugawara, K.
- Nature Materials, Vol. 14, Issue 8
Robust and Clean Majorana Zero Mode in the Vortex Core of High-Temperature Superconductor
journal, December 2018
- Liu, Qin; Chen, Chen; Zhang, Tong
- Physical Review X, Vol. 8, Issue 4
Pairing Mechanism in Fe-Based Superconductors
journal, March 2012
- Chubukov, Andrey
- Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, Vol. 3, Issue 1
Classification of symmetry derived pairing at the point in FeSe
journal, July 2018
- Eugenio, P. Myles; Vafek, Oskar
- Physical Review B, Vol. 98, Issue 1
Unconventional Superconductivity with a Sign Reversal in the Order Parameter of
journal, July 2008
- Mazin, I. I.; Singh, D. J.; Johannes, M. D.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, Issue 5
Space group symmetry, spin-orbit coupling, and the low-energy effective Hamiltonian for iron-based superconductors
journal, October 2013
- Cvetkovic, Vladimir; Vafek, Oskar
- Physical Review B, Vol. 88, Issue 13
Magnetism, superconductivity, and pairing symmetry in iron-based superconductors
journal, October 2008
- Chubukov, A. V.; Efremov, D. V.; Eremin, I.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 78, Issue 13
Hund Interaction, Spin-Orbit Coupling, and the Mechanism of Superconductivity in Strongly Hole-Doped Iron Pnictides
journal, February 2017
- Vafek, Oskar; Chubukov, Andrey V.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 118, Issue 8
Using gap symmetry and structure to reveal the pairing mechanism in Fe-based superconductors
journal, January 2016
- Hirschfeld, Peter J.
- Comptes Rendus Physique, Vol. 17, Issue 1-2
Direct observation of spin–orbit coupling in iron-based superconductors
journal, December 2015
- Borisenko, S. V.; Evtushinsky, D. V.; Liu, Z. -H.
- Nature Physics, Vol. 12, Issue 4
Coexistence of superconductivity and antiferromagnetism in (Li0.8Fe0.2)OHFeSe
journal, December 2014
- Lu, X. F.; Wang, N. Z.; Wu, H.
- Nature Materials, Vol. 14, Issue 3
Superconductivity in FeSe Thin Films Driven by the Interplay between Nematic Fluctuations and Spin-Orbit Coupling
journal, November 2016
- Kang, Jian; Fernandes, Rafael M.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 117, Issue 21
Interface-Induced High-Temperature Superconductivity in Single Unit-Cell FeSe Films on SrTiO 3
journal, March 2012
- Wang, Qing-Yan; Li, Zhi; Zhang, Wen-Hao
- Chinese Physics Letters, Vol. 29, Issue 3
Unconventional Pairing Originating from the Disconnected Fermi Surfaces of Superconducting
journal, August 2008
- Kuroki, Kazuhiko; Onari, Seiichiro; Arita, Ryotaro
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, Issue 8
Theory of quasiparticle interference patterns in the pseudogap phase of the cuprate superconductors
journal, November 2003
- Pereg-Barnea, T.; Franz, M.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 68, Issue 18
Superconductivity in the iron selenide
journal, November 2010
- Guo, Jiangang; Jin, Shifeng; Wang, Gang
- Physical Review B, Vol. 82, Issue 18
Self-consistent Vertex Correction Analysis for Iron-based Superconductors: Mechanism of Coulomb Interaction-Driven Orbital Fluctuations
journal, September 2012
- Onari, Seiichiro; Kontani, Hiroshi
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 109, Issue 13
Fourier transform spectroscopy of -wave quasiparticles in the presence of atomic scale pairing disorder
journal, March 2006
- Nunner, Tamara S.; Chen, Wei; Andersen, Brian M.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 73, Issue 10
Discovery of orbital-selective Cooper pairing in FeSe
journal, July 2017
- Sprau, P. O.; Kostin, A.; Kreisel, A.
- Science, Vol. 357, Issue 6346
-wave pairing from spin fluctuations in the Fe Se superconductors
journal, March 2011
- Maier, T. A.; Graser, S.; Hirschfeld, P. J.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 83, Issue 10
The electron pairing of K x Fe 2− y Se 2
journal, February 2011
- Wang, Fa; Yang, Fan; Gao, Miao
- EPL (Europhysics Letters), Vol. 93, Issue 5
Common electronic origin of superconductivity in (Li,Fe)OHFeSe bulk superconductor and single-layer FeSe/SrTiO3 films
journal, February 2016
- Zhao, Lin; Liang, Aiji; Yuan, Dongna
- Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
Gap symmetry and structure of Fe-based superconductors
journal, October 2011
- Hirschfeld, P. J.; Korshunov, M. M.; Mazin, I. I.
- Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 74, Issue 12
Sign reversal of the order parameter in (Li1−xFex)OHFe1−yZnySe
journal, October 2017
- Du, Zengyi; Yang, Xiong; Altenfeld, Dustin
- Nature Physics, Vol. 14, Issue 2
Influence of Spin-Orbit Coupling in Iron-Based Superconductors
journal, August 2018
- Day, R. P.; Levy, G.; Michiardi, M.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 121, Issue 7
Surface electronic structure and evidence of plain -wave superconductivity in
journal, October 2016
- Yan, Y. J.; Zhang, W. H.; Ren, M. Q.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 94, Issue 13
Spin fluctuations and superconductivity in K Fe Se
journal, September 2013
- Kreisel, A.; Wang, Y.; Maier, T. A.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 88, Issue 9
Theory of quasiparticle scattering interference on the surface of topological superconductors
journal, October 2013
- Hofmann, Johannes S.; Queiroz, Raquel; Schnyder, Andreas P.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 88, Issue 13