Increasingly intricate phase diagrams in new classes of superconductors host fascinating interactions between superconductivity, diverse quantum phases, and quantum critical dynamics. The native superfluids, however, often exhibit much lower density and much greater inhomogeneity than conventional superfluids. This may render the superconductivity susceptible to fluctuations that are ordinarily assumed to be frozen out far below the superconducting transition temperature Tc, calling into question the degree to which the superconducting state is fully coherent. In this work, we leverage terahertz spectroscopy to demonstrate strongly fluctuating superconductivity in topological compositions of the multiband iron-based superconductor Fe(Te,Se). These fluctuations are found to persist undiminished far below Tc and converge upon the limit of Planckian dissipation above Tc. These results indicate that extended quantum fluctuations dominate the electrodynamics of both the superconducting and Planckian-dissipative precursor states of Fe(Te,Se), and demonstrate that the assumption of phase coherence must be rigorously validated in emerging classes of unconventional superconductors.
@article{arxiv.2509.13969,
title = {Persistent Fluctuating Superconductivity and Planckian Dissipation in Fe(Te,Se)},
author = {Jonathan Stensberg and Pok Man Tam and Xiaoyu Yuan and Xiong Yao and Heshan Yu and Chih-Yu Lee and An-Hsi Chen and Philip J. D. Crowley and Matthew Brahlek and Ichiro Takeuchi and Seongshik Oh and Joseph Orenstein and Charles Kane and Liang Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.13969},
year = {2025}
}