Two-fold rotational symmetric Bogoliubov Fermi surface in tetragonal Fe(Se,S

ORAL

Abstract

The intriguing iron based superconductor FeSe exhibits rich phenomena at low temperatures upon chemical pressure, including time reversal symmetry breaking, nematic criticality and topological phases. For sufficiently large S-substitution, the system recovers C4 symmetry in its normal state, and at the same time acquires a nonzero density of states at zero energy at zero temperature in its superconducting state, consistent with the existence of a so-called Bogoliubov Fermi surface (BFS). Recent angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) experiments has found more direct evidence for BFSs in such materials, but despite the tetragonal normal state, the BFSs seems to be curiously only two-fold symmetric. In this work 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 BFSs. 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 ARPES experiments.

* L. F. acknowledges support by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant SuperCoop (Grant No 838526). P.J.H. and Y.C. were supported by DOE grant number DE-FG02-05ER46236. A.K. acknowledges support by the Danish National Committee for Research Infrastructure (NUFI) through the ESS-Lighthouse Q-MAT.

Publication: arXiv:2305.15569

Presenters

  • Yifu Cao

    University of Florida

Authors

  • Yifu Cao

    University of Florida

  • Chandan Setty

    Rice University

  • Laura Fanfarillo

    Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)

  • Andreas Kreisel

    Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Insititute, U. Copenhagen

  • Peter J Hirschfeld

    University of Florida