We show that electron-phonon coupling can induce strong electron pairing in an FeSe monolayer on a SrTiO3 substrate (experimental indications for superconducting Tc are between 65 and 109K). The role of the SrTiO3 substrate in increasing the coupling is two-fold. First, the interaction of the FeSe and TiO2 terminated face of SrTiO3 prevents the FeSe monolayer from undergoing a shear-type (orthorhombic, nematic) structural phase transition. Second, the substrate allows an anti-ferromagnetic ground state of FeSe which opens electron-phonon coupling channels within the monolayer that are prevented by symmetry in the non-magnetic phase. The spectral function for the electron-phonon coupling (alpha2F) in our calculations agrees well with inelastic tunneling data.
@article{arxiv.1407.5657,
title = {Large electron-phonon interactions from FeSe phonons in a monolayer},
author = {Sinisa Coh and Marvin L. Cohen and Steven G. Louie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.5657},
year = {2015}
}
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Updated version, including supplement. Accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics