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Evidence from tunneling spectroscopy for a quasi-one-dimensional origin of superconductivity in Sr2RuO4

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

I.A. Firmo
S. Lederer
C. Lupien
A.P. Mackenzie
J.C. Davis
S.A. Kivelson

Abstract

To establish the mechanism of unconventional superconductivity in Sr 2RuO4, a prerequisite is direct information concerning the momentum-space structure of the energy gaps Δi(k), and in particular whether the pairing strength is stronger ("dominant") on the quasi-one-dimensional (α and β) or on the quasi-two-dimensional (γ) Fermi surfaces. We present scanning tunneling microscopy measurements of the density of states spectra in the superconducting state of Sr 2RuO4 for 0.1Tc < T < Tc and analyze them along with published thermodynamic data using a simple phenomenological model. We show that our observation of a single superconducting gap scale with maximum value 2Δ≈5Tc along with a spectral shape indicative of line nodes is consistent, within a weak-coupling model, with magnetically mediated odd-parity superconductivity generated by dominant, near-nodal, Cooper pairing on the α and β bands. © 2013 American Physical Society.

Date Published

Journal

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volume

88

Issue

13

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84886785351&doi=10.1103%2fPhysRevB.88.134521&partnerID=40&md5=7e836b9e2a5c7e4bb7bb96edcab4630a

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevB.88.134521

Group (Lab)

J.C. Seamus Davis Group

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