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Unconventional superconducting gap via spin fluctuations in iron-vacancy ordered A$_{y}$Fe$_{2-x}$Se$_{2}$

Superconductivity 2012-05-16 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Based on an effective 12-orbital tight-binding model, we examine the superconducting states induced by the antiferromagnetic fluctuations for iron-vacancy-ordered Ay_{y}Fe2x_{2-x}Se2_{2}. It is shown that due to the broken reflection symmetry induced by the iron vacancies, new superconducting states with C4hC_{4h} symmetry emerge. In particular, we show that in the C4hC_{4h} symmetry, symmetric axes of the pairing momenta do not need to coincide with axes of the unit cell. As a result, in addition to the magnitude of the pairing gap, the relative orientation of the pairing wave function to the lattice forms another degree of freedom for characterizing the superconducting gap and can further help in gaining the condensation energy. Nonetheless, similar to other iron-based superconductors, the singlet ground state is still dominated by s-wave or d-wave, which are nearly degenerate with anisotropic gaps. Furthermore, s-wave and d-wave superconducting states are separated by a quantum critical point controlled by the Hund's rule coupling JHJ_{H}.

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@article{arxiv.1202.1063,
  title  = {Unconventional superconducting gap via spin fluctuations in iron-vacancy ordered A$_{y}$Fe$_{2-x}$Se$_{2}$},
  author = {Shin-Ming Huang and Chung-Yu Mou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.1063},
  year   = {2012}
}

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9 pages, 8 figures