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Competition between superconductivity and nematic order: Anisotropy of superconducting coherence length

Eun-Gook Moon, Subir Sachdev

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.184511 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We study the interplay between nematic order and superconductivity, motivated by a recent experiment on FeSe observing strongly distorted vortex shapes [Song et al., Science 332, 1410 (2011)]. We show that the nematic order strongly enhances the anisotropy in the superconducting coherence length, beyond that expected from considerations of the Ginzburg-Landau theory. We obtain universal functions describing the coupling between the nematic order and superconductivity, and discuss connections of our results to the experiments.

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Ba1[Fe2-xCox]As2

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FeSe

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