Microscopic origin of ultranodal superconducting states in spin-12 systems
Yifu Cao, Chandan Setty, Laura Fanfarillo, Andreas Kreisel, P. J. Hirschfeld
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.224506 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
Several unconventional superconductors show indications of zero-energy excitations in the superconducting state consistent with the existence of a so-called Bogoliubov-Fermi surface (BFS). In particular, FeSe isovalently substituted with S seems to acquire a nonzero density of states at zero energy at low temperatures as the system goes into the tetragonal phase, consistent with a previously proposed phenomenological theory assuming an anisotropic spin singlet pairing gap coexisting with a nonunitary interband triplet component. Here we search for a microscopic model that can support the coexistence of singlet pairing with other orders, including interband nonunitary triplet pairing with magnetization, and discuss several candidates that indeed stabilize ground states with BFS. We show that with proper choice of the coupling strength of the various orders in our model, spontaneous breaking of C4 rotational symmetry is realized at low temperatures. This feature resembles the findings of recent angle-resolved photoemission experiments in Fe(Se,S) in the tetragonal phase.
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| Formula | Reported Tc (K) | Pressure (GPa) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fe(Se,S) Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | — | Pressure not reported | unknown |
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