Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2008-10-08
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
4 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.79.060502
The newly discovered iron pnictide superconductors apparently present an unusual case of interband-channel pairing superconductivity. Here we show that, in the limit where the pairing occurs within the interband channel, several surprising effects occur quite naturally and generally: different density-of-states on the two bands lead to several unusual properties, including a gap ratio which behaves inversely to the ratio of density-of-states; the weak-coupling limit of the Eliashberg and the BCS theory, commonly taken as equivalent, in fact predict qualitatively different dependence of the $\Delta_{1}/\Delta_{2}$ and $\Delta/T_{c}$ ratios on coupling constants. We show analytically that these effects follow directly from the interband character of superconductivity. Our results show that in the interband-only pairing model the maximal gap ratio is $\sqrt{N_{2}/N_{1}}$ as strong-coupling effects act only to reduce this ratio. This suggests that if the large experimentally reported gap ratios (up to a factor 2) are correct, the pairing mechanism must include more intraband interaction than is usually assumed.
Dolgov Oleg V.
Golubov Alexander A.
Mazin Igor I.
Parker Daryl
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