Orbital superconductivity, defects, and pinned nematic fluctuations in the doped iron chalcogenide FeSe0.45Te0.55
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 holelike Fermi surfaces, and a strongly anisotropic gap on the electronlike 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. © 2017 American Physical Society.
Date Published
Journal
Physical Review B
Volume
96
Issue
6
URL
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85028758056&doi=10.1103%2fPhysRevB.96.060504&partnerID=40&md5=a9f04768e78e20d190cfd51ece16cfa2
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.96.060504
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Group (Lab)
J.C. Seamus Davis Group