Optical conductivity and Raman scattering of iron superconductors
Abstract
We discuss how to analyze the optical conductivity and Raman spectra of multi-orbital systems using the velocity and the Raman vertices in a similar way Raman vertices were used to disentangle nodal and antinodal regions in cuprates. We apply this method to iron superconductors in the magnetic and non-magnetic states, studied at the mean field level. We find that the anisotropy in the optical conductivity at low frequencies reflects the difference between the magnetic gaps at the X and Y electron pockets. Both gaps are sampled by Raman spectroscopy. We also show that the Drude weight anisotropy in the magnetic state is sensitive to small changes in the lattice structure.
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@article{arxiv.1212.4765,
title = {Optical conductivity and Raman scattering of iron superconductors},
author = {B. Valenzuela and M. J. Calderon and G. Leon and E. Bascones},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.4765},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
14 pages, 10 figures, as accepted in Phys. Rev. B, explanations/discussion added in Secs. II, III and VI