Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of superconducting LiFeAs: Evidence for strong electron-phonon coupling

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作者
Kordyuk, A. A. [1 ,2 ]
Zabolotnyy, V. B. [1 ]
Evtushinsky, D. V. [1 ]
Kim, T. K. [1 ]
Morozov, I. V. [1 ,3 ]
Kulic, M. L. [4 ]
Follath, R. [5 ]
Behr, G. [1 ]
Buechner, B. [1 ]
Borisenko, S. V. [1 ]
机构
[1] IFW Dresden, Inst Solid State Res, D-01171 Dresden, Germany
[2] Natl Acad Sci Ukraine, Inst Met Phys, UA-03142 Kiev, Ukraine
[3] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119991, Russia
[4] Goethe Univ Frankfurt, Inst Theoret Phys, D-60438 Frankfurt, Germany
[5] BESSY, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2011年 / 83卷 / 13期
关键词
HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TRANSITION-TEMPERATURE; SCENARIO;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.83.134513
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T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
By applying a state-of-the-art angle-resolved photoemission to LiFeAs, the only stoichiometric pnictide superconductor without magnetic ordering, we identify a clear fingerprint of the phonon spectrum in the fermionic self-energy and estimate the electron-phonon coupling strength, which appears to be sufficient to mediate the superconductivity. This result suggests that the superconductivity in pnictides could be based on the conventional phonon pairing enhanced by the van Hove singularity in the electronic density of states and by the strong electron-electron interaction.
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