We analyze the electronic properties of the recently discovered stoichiometric superconductor CaKFe4As4 by combining an ab initio approach and a projection of the band structure to a lowenergy tight-binding Hamiltonian, based on the maximally localized Wannier orbitals of the 3d Fe states. We identify the key symmetries as well as differences and similarities in the electronic structure between CaKFe4As4 and the parent systems CaFe2As2 and KFe2As2. In particular, we find CaKFe4As4 to have a significantly more quasi-two-dimensional electronic structure than the latter systems. Finally, we study the superconducting instabilities in CaKFe4As4 by employing the leading angular harmonics approximation (LAHA) and find two potential A1g-symmetry representation of the superconducting gap to be the dominant instabilities in this system.
@article{arxiv.1706.08792,
title = {Electronic properties, low-energy Hamiltonian and superconducting instabilities in CaKFe$_4$As$_4$},
author = {Felix Lochner and Felix Ahn and Tilmann Hickel and Ilya Eremin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.08792},
year = {2017}
}