London Penetration Depth in Iron - based Superconductors

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2011-07-04

arxiv.org/abs/1107.0675v1

Rep. Prog. Phys. 74, 124505 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

review article, 39 pages

Scientific paper

10.1088/0034-4885/74/12/124505

Measurements of London penetration depth are a sensitive tool to study multi-band superconductivity and it has provided several important insights to the behavior of Fe-based superconductors. We first briefly review the "experimentalist - friendly" self-consistent Eilenberger model that relates the measurable superfluid density and structure of superconducting gaps. Then we focus on the \BaFe -derived materials, for which the results are consistent with 1) two distinct superconducting gaps; 2) development of strong in-plane gap anisotropy with the departure from the optimal doping; 3) appearance of gap nodes along the $c-$direction in a highly overdoped regime; 4) significant pair-breaking, presumably due to charge doping; 5) fully gapped (exponential) intrinsic behavior at the optimal doping if scattering is removed (probed in the "self-doped" stoichiometric LiFeAs); 6) competition between magnetically ordered state and superconductivity, which do coexist in the underdoped compounds. Overall, it appears that while there are common trends in the behavior of Fe-based superconductors, the gap structure is non-universal and is sensitive to the doping level. It is plausible that the rich variety of possible gap structures within the general $s_{\pm}$ framework is responsible for the observed behavior.

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