In europium-based iron pnictides superconducting Fe-planes can be influenced by a Zeeman field originated from the neighboring Eu-planes. The field tends to induce spin-density waves with a ferromagnetic average which coexists with the superconducting order by forming complementary patterns of the superconducting and magnetic order parameters in a Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov phase and a two-dimensional textured-superconducting phase. The hard gap around the Fermi energy disappears in these fragile inhomogeneous superconducting states, which features, instead, V-shaped spin-resolved local density of states. The inhomogeneous states are also competing with either a homogeneous superconducting or a homogeneous ferromagnetic state, manifesting the intertwining influences of the magnetic orders in Fe and Eu planes, the spin-density wave band structure, and the superconducting pairing order.
Reply to Comment on "Violation of Anderson's Theorem for the sign-reversing s-wave state of Iron-Pnictide Superconductors" [arXiv:1012.0414] by Y. Bang
One of the outstanding problems in Iron pnictide research is the unambiguous detection of its pairing symmetry. The most probable candidates are the two-band s$++$ and sign reversed s$\pm$ wave pairing. In this work, the Andreev conductance and shot noise are used as a probe for the pairing symmetry of Iron pnictide superconductors. Clear differences emerge in both the zero bias differential conductance and the shot noise in the tunneling limit for the two cases enabling an effective distinction between the two.
The phenomenology of the iron pnictide superconductor can be described by the threeband s+- Eliashberg theory in which the mechanism of superconducting coupling is mediated by antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations and whose characteristic energy W0 scales with Tc according to the empirical law W0 = 4.65kBTc. This model presents the universal characteristics that are independent of the critical temperature, such as the link between the two free parameters l13 and l23 and the ratio Di/kBTc.
Comment on "Violation of Anderson's Theorem for the sign-reversing s-wave state of Iron-Pnictide Superconductors" by Onari et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 177001(2009)[1]
Orbital Order, Structural Transition and Superconductivity in Iron Pnictides
我们研究了铁磷属元素化物超导体的16带d-p模型，其中存在电子-声子耦合g和正交模，这对于再现最近观察到的超声软化是至关重要的。在RPA中，我们得到了低于TQ的铁轨道序，它在Ts = TQ处诱导四方-正交结构转变，以及低于TN的条纹型反铁磁序。在相变附近，当TQ > TN时，由于轨道涨落，系统表现出s++波超导电性，而当TQ > TN时，由于磁场涨落，系统表现出s+-波超导电< TN. The former case is consistent with the phase diagram of doped iron pnictides with Ts >性.
Impurity scattering is found to lead to quasi-one dimensional nanoscale modulation of the local density of states in the iron pnictides and chalcogenides. This `quasiparticle interference' feature is remarkably similar across a wide variety of pnictide and chalcogenide phases, suggesting a common origin. We show that a unified understanding of the experiments can be obtained by simply invoking a four-fold symmetry breaking $d_{xz}-d_{yz}$ orbital splitting, of a magnitude already suggested by the experiments. This can explain the one-dimensional characteristics in the local density of states o…
Tracing the $s_\pm$-symmetry in iron pnictides by controlled disorder
连续质子辐照使铁的超导转变温度单调下降。我们对Ba（Fe $_{0.9}$ Co $_{0.1}$）$_2$ As $_2$薄膜的系统光学太赫兹研究揭示，然而，低能超导能隙首先被抑制，但在较高的辐照剂量下恢复。与此同时，超流体密度随无序度的下降也停止了。这些观察结果与理论计算非常吻合，理论计算预测了无序诱导的序参量从$s_{\pm}$到$s_{++}$对称性的转变。因此，我们解决了长期以来的困惑铁pnictides间隙对称性有利于$s_{\pm}$对称性和证明太赫兹光谱作为一种工具，以确定超导序参量的对称性。
Charge doping-induced quasiparticle scattering in iron-pnictide superconductors as probed by vortex pinning
铁磷属元素化物超导体的电荷掺杂导致磁通涡旋的集体钉扎，而等价掺杂则不会。此外，磁通钉扎在电荷掺杂的化合物是一贯的平均自由程波动所引入的掺杂剂原子，允许提取的弹性准粒子散射率。等价掺杂的BaFe $_{2}$（As $_{1-x}$ P $_{x}$）$_{2}$中不存在掺杂剂原子的散射与该材料中低温渗透深度的线性温度依赖性的观察结果一致。
We study Josephson junctions between a multi-band iron-pnictide Ba1-xNaxFe2As2 and conventional s-wave superconductors Nb and Cu/Nb bilayer. We observe that junctions with a Cu interlayer exhibit much larger IcRn, despite a weaker proximity-induced superconductivity. This counterintuitive result is attributed to the difference in Fermi surface geometries of Nb and Cu, which leads to a selective one-band tunneling from Cu and a non-selective multi-band tunnelng from Nb. The latter leads to a mutual cancellation of supercurrents due to the sign-reversal s+- symmetry of the order parameter in the…
Observation of anisotropic diamagnetism above the superconducting transition in iron-pnictide Ba_(1-x)K_xFe2As2 single crystals due to thermodynamic fluctuations
Intergrain Josephson Currents in Multigap Superconductors: Microscopic Origin of Low Intergrain Critical Current and Its Recovery Potential in Iron-Pnictide Materials
Local antiferromagnetic correlations in the iron pnictide superconductors LaFeAsO{1-x}F{x} and Ca(Fe,Co)2As2 as seen via normal-state susceptibility
本文研究了LaFeAsO $_{1-x}$ F $_x$和Ca（Fe $_{1-x}$ Co $_x$）$_2$ As $_2$中磁性和超导电性的相互作用。虽然反铁磁自旋密度波的形成被抑制和超导性的发展，所有的样品显示出掺杂独立的正常状态下的磁化率的加热后，出现了铁磷属元素的一般功能的强烈增加。这些数据提供了证据，强大的本地反铁磁相关坚持即使在超导制度的相图。
The mechanism of formation of dome-like phase diagrams and the features of magnetic field penetration in iron pnictides with hetero- and isovalent doping are considered within the framework of the previously proposed model, which assumes the local character of doping and the cluster structure of resulted superconducting phase. It is shown that the proposed model, despite its simplicity and neglect of the features of the electronic structure, makes it possible not only to accurately calculate the positions of superconducting domes on the phase diagrams of specific HTSC compounds, but also to ex…
Fermi-surface topology of the iron pnictide LaFe$_2$P$_2$
我们报告了对铁磷属元素LaFe $_2$ P $_2$的全面de Haas-van Alphen（dHvA）研究。我们广泛的密度泛函能带结构计算可以很好地解释测得的角依赖dHvA频率。作为显著特征，我们只观察到一个准二维费米面片，即，$Γ$周围的孔状费米面圆柱体缺失，而该圆柱体对于$s_\pm$配对是必需的。尽管由于多体效应，LaFe $_2$ P $_2$具有相当大的质量增强，但没有表现出超导电性。这可能是由于电子和空穴带之间没有任何嵌套造成的。
