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Unconventional Superconductivity Mediated by Nematic Fluctuations in a Multi-Orbital System -- Application to doped FeSe

Superconductivity 2024-12-11 v1

Abstract

We analyze superconductivity in a multi-orbital fermionic system near the onset of a nematic order, using doped FeSe as an example. We associate nematicity with a spontaneous polarization between dxzd_{\text{xz}} and dyzd_{\text{yz}} orbitals (a Pomeranchuk-type order) and analyze the pairing mediated by soft nematic fluctuations. Such a pairing gives rise to a highly anisotropic gap function whose structure strongly varies with temperature, and leads to strongly non-BCS behavior in thermodynamics, spectroscopy and transport. We compute the specific heat and its directional variation with a magnetic field, magnetic susceptibility, density of states, tunneling conductance, Raman intensity, superfluid stiffness and penetration depth without and with impurity scattering and for the latter computed also optical conductivity and TcT_c variation. We find good agreement with the existing data for FeSe1x_{1-x}Sx_x and FeSe1x_{1-x}Tex_x and suggest new experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2412.07008,
  title  = {Unconventional Superconductivity Mediated by Nematic Fluctuations in a Multi-Orbital System -- Application to doped FeSe},
  author = {Kazi Ranjibul Islam and Andrey Chubukov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.07008},
  year   = {2024}
}