We report on a study of the superconducting order parameter in Fe(Te1−xSex) thin films (with different Se contents: x=0.3, 0.4, 0.5) by means of point-contact Andreev-reflection spectroscopy (PCARS). The PCARS spectra show reproducible evidence of multiple structures, namely two clear conductance maxima associated to a superconducting gap of amplitude ΔE≃2.75kBTc and additional shoulders at higher energy that, as we show, are the signature of the strong interaction of charge carriers with a bosonic mode whose characteristic energy coincides with the spin-resonance energy. The details of some PCARS spectra at low energy suggest the presence of a smaller and not easily discernible gap of amplitude ΔH≃1.75kBTc. The existence of this gap and its amplitude are confirmed by PCARS measurements in Fe(Te1−xSex) single crystals. The values of the two gaps ΔE and ΔH, once plotted as a function of the local critical temperature TcA, turn out to be in perfect agreement with the results obtained by various experimental techniques reported in literature.
@article{arxiv.1412.4667,
title = {Point-contact Andreev-reflection spectroscopy in Fe(Te,Se) films: multiband superconductivity and electron-boson coupling},
author = {D. Daghero and P. Pecchio and G. A. Ummarino and F. Nabeshima and Y. Imai and A. Maeda and I. Tsukada and S. Komiya and R. S. Gonnelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.4667},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
8 pages, 6 figures. This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article published in Supercond. Sci. Technol. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at 10.1088/0953-2048/27/12/124014