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Superconductivity and phonon self-energy effects in Fe$_{1+y}$Te$_{0.6}$Se$_{0.4}$

Superconductivity 2020-04-01 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study Fe1+y_{1+y}Te0.6_{0.6}Se0.4_{0.4} multi-band superconductor with Tc=14T_c=14K by polarization-resolved Raman spectroscopy. Deep in the superconducting state, we detect pair-breaking excitation at 45cm1^{-1} (2Δ=5.62\Delta=5.6meV) in the XYXY(B2gB_{2g}) scattering geometry, consistent with twice of the superconducting gap energy (3 meV) revealed by ARPES on the hole-like Fermi pocket with dxz/dyzd_{xz}/d_{yz} character. We analyze the superconductivity induced phonon self-energy effects for the B1gB_{1g}(Fe) phonon and estimate the electron-phonon coupling constant λΓ0.026\lambda^\Gamma \approx 0.026, which is insufficient to explain superconductivity with Tc=14T_c=14K.

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@article{arxiv.1911.07270,
  title  = {Superconductivity and phonon self-energy effects in Fe$_{1+y}$Te$_{0.6}$Se$_{0.4}$},
  author = {S. -F. Wu and A. Almoalem and I. Feldman and A. Lee and A. Kanigel and G. Blumberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.07270},
  year   = {2020}
}