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Orbital superconductivity, defects, and pinned nematic fluctuations in the doped iron chalcogenide FeSe0.45Te0.55

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

S. Sarkar
J. Van Dyke
P.O. Sprau
F. Massee
U. Welp
W.-K. Kwok
J.C.S. Davis
D.K. Morr

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

Group (Lab)

J.C. Seamus Davis Group

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