Testing the sign-changing superconducting gap in iron-based superconductors with quasiparticle interference and neutron scattering

Details Testing the sign-changing superconducting gap in iron-based superconductors with quasiparticle interference and neutron scattering Testing the sign-changing superconducting gap in iron-based superconductors with quasiparticle interference and neutron scattering

2011-10-17

arxiv.org/abs/1110.3834v2

J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 24, 182201 (2012)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

8 pages, 5 figures, J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. (2012) v2: Experimental data included

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/24/18/182201

We present a phenomenological calculation of the quasiparticle-interference (QPI) pattern and inelastic Neutron scattering (INS) spectra in iron-pnictide and layered iron-selenide compounds by using materials specific band-structure and superconducting (SC) gap properties. As both the QPI and the INS spectra arise due to scattering of the Bogolyubov quasiaprticles, they exibit an one-to-one correspondence of the scattering vectors and the energy scales. We show that these two spectroscopies complement each other in such a way that a comparative study allows one to extract the quantitative and unambiguous information about the underlying pairing structure and the phase of the SC gap. Due to the nodeless and isotropic nature of the SC gaps, both the QPI and INS maps are concentrated at only two energies in pnictide (two SC gaps) and one energy in iron-selenide, while the associated scattering vectors q for scattering of sign-changing and same-sign of the SC gaps change between these spectroscopies. The results presented, particularly for newly iron-selenide compounds, can be used to test the nodeless d-wave pairing in this class of high temperature superconductors.

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