Two-electron photoemission spectroscopy as a probe of superconducting correlations and Debye energy

ORAL

Abstract

We demonstrate that the photoemission counting rate P(2) measured in two electron photoemission spectroscopy (2e-ARPES) provides unprecedented insight into the nature of topological superconductivity. In particular, it allows us to detect induced superconducting spin-triplet correlations in a topological superconductor, and hence can be used to distinguish two recently proposed mechanisms for the topological superconductivity in FeSe0.45Te0.55. Moreover, we demonstrate P(2) can be employed to detect topological phase transitions, as well as provide insight into the characteristic energy scale for superconducting pairing, the Debye energy.

* This study was supported by the Center for Quantum Sensing and Quantum Materials, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under Award DE-SC0021238. F.M. acknowledges support from the EPiQS program of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Grant GBMF11069.

Publication: K. H. Wong, A. Patwardhan, P. Abbamonte, F. Mahmood, and D. K. Morr, Two-electron photoemission spectroscopy in topological superconductors (2022), arXiv:2210.11738 [cond-mat.supr-con]

Presenters

  • Ka Ho Wong

    University of Illinois at Chicago

Authors

  • Ka Ho Wong

    University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Ameya Patwardhan

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Peter Abbamonte

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Fahad Mahmood

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Dirk K Morr

    University of Illinois at Chicago