Phase transition beneath the superconducting dome in BaFe2(As1-xPx)2

被引:17
作者
Chowdhury, Debanjan [1 ]
Orenstein, J. [2 ]
Sachdev, Subir [1 ,3 ]
Senthil, T. [4 ]
机构
[1] Harvard Univ, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[3] Perimeter Inst Theoret Phys, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada
[4] MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2015年 / 92卷 / 08期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
QUANTUM CRITICAL-POINT; IRON PNICTIDES; GAP STRUCTURE; STATES;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.92.081113
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
We present a theory for the large suppression of the superfluid density rho(s) in BaFe2(As1-xPx)(2) in the vicinity of a putative spin-density wave quantum critical point at a P doping, x = x(c). We argue that the transition becomes weakly first order in the vicinity of x(c), and disorder induces puddles of superconducting and antiferromagnetic regions at short length scales; thus, the system becomes an electronic microemulsion. We propose that frustrated Josephson couplings between the superconducting grains suppress rho(s). In addition, the presence of "normal" quasiparticles at the interface of the frustrated Josephson junctions will give rise to a highly nontrivial feature in the low-frequency response in a narrow vicinity around x(c). We propose a number of experiments to test our theory.
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