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Classification of Symmetry Derived Pairing at M Point in FeSe

Superconductivity 2018-07-11 v2

Abstract

Using the constraints imposed by the crystalline symmetry of FeSe and the experimentally observed phenomenology, we analyze the possible pairing symmetry of the superconducting order parameter focusing on intercalated and monolayer FeSe compounds. Such analysis leads to three possible pairing symmetry states -- s-wave, d-wave, and helical p-wave. Despite the differences in the pairing symmetry, each of these states is fully gapped with gap minimum centered above the normal state Fermi surface, in agreement with photoemission data of Y. Zhang et al. The analysis provides additional insights into the possible pairing mechanism for each of these states, highlighting the detrimental role of the renormalized repulsive intra-orbital Hubbard UU and inter-orbital UU' , and the beneficial role of the pair hopping JJ' and the Hunds JJ terms, as well as the spin-orbit coupling in the effective low-energy Hamiltonian.

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@article{arxiv.1804.08056,
  title  = {Classification of Symmetry Derived Pairing at M Point in FeSe},
  author = {P. Myles Eugenio and Oskar Vafek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.08056},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

17 pages, 13 figures. Minor corrections in order to match PRB publication, this includes: removed erroneous citation, added citation, minor corrections to wordings, and added paragraph. Further, the author corrected the pairing symmetry of the inter-band spin-triplet (w/ d-vector out of plane) pairs in Table III. This was a labeling mistake and has no impact on the rest of the paper