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Band Structure and Fermi Surface of an Extremely Overdoped Iron-Based Superconductor KFe2As2

Superconductivity 2015-05-13 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We have performed high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on heavily overdoped KFe_2As_2 (transition temperature (Tc = 3 K). We observed several renormalized bands near the Fermi level with a renormalization factor of 2-4. While the Fermi surface (FS) around the Brillouin-zone center is qualitatively similar to that of optimally-doped Ba_{1-x}K_xFe_2As_2 (x = 0.4; Tc = 37 K), the FS topology around the zone corner (M point) is markedly different: the two electron FS pockets are completely absent due to excess of hole doping. This result indicates that the electronic states around the M point play an important role in the high-Tc superconductivity of Ba1x_{1-x}Kx_xFe2_2As2_2 and suggests that the interband scattering via the antiferromagnetic wave vector essentially controls the Tc value in the overdoped region.

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@article{arxiv.0810.3047,
  title  = {Band Structure and Fermi Surface of an Extremely Overdoped Iron-Based Superconductor KFe2As2},
  author = {T. Sato and K. Nakayama and Y. Sekiba and P. Richard and Y. -M. Xu and S. Souma and T. Takahashi and G. F. Chen and J. L. Luo and N. L. Wang and H. Ding},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3047},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures

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