Fermi surface nesting induced strong pairing in iron-based superconductors

Details Fermi surface nesting induced strong pairing in iron-based superconductors Fermi surface nesting induced strong pairing in iron-based superconductors

2008-12-19

arxiv.org/abs/0812.3704v2

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS) 106, 7330-7333 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

18 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in iron pnictides raised the possibility of an unconventional superconducting mechanism in multiband materials. The observation of Fermi-surface(FS)-dependent nodeless superconducting gaps suggested that inter-FS interactions may play a crucial role in superconducting pairing. In the optimally hole-doped Ba$_{0.6}$K$_{0.4}$Fe$_2$As$_2$, the pairing strength is enhanced simultaneously (2$\Delta$/Tc$\sim$7) on the nearly nested FS pockets, i.e. the inner holelike ($\alpha$) FS and the two hybridized electronlike FSs, while the pairing remains weak (2$\Delta$/Tc$\sim$3.6) in the poorly-nested outer hole-like ($\beta$) FS. Here we report that in the electron-doped BaFe$_{1.85}$Co$_{0.15}$As$_2$ the FS nesting condition switches from the $\alpha$ to the $\beta$ FS due to the opposite size changes for hole- and electron-like FSs upon electron doping. The strong pairing strength (2$\Delta$/Tc$\sim$6) is also found to switch to the nested $\beta$ FS, indicating an intimate connection between FS nesting and superconducting pairing, and strongly supporting the inter-FS pairing mechanism in the iron-based superconductors.

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