Published May 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Specific heat of FeSe: Two gaps with different anisotropy in superconducting state

  • 1. P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991 (Russian Federation)
  • 2. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Moscow 115409 (Russian Federation)
  • 3. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow 101000 (Russian Federation)
  • 4. Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies, Kazan Federal University, Kazan 420008 (Russian Federation)
  • 5. Institute of Physics and Technology, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg 620002 (Russian Federation)
  • 6. Institute of Experimental Mineralogy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region,142432 (Russian Federation)

Description

We present detailed study of specific heat of FeSe single crystals with critical temperature Tc=8.45 K at 0.4200 K in magnetic fields 09 T. Analysis of the electronic specific heat at low temperatures shows the coexistence of isotropic s-wave gap and strongly anisotropic extended s-wave gap without nodes. It was found two possibilities of superconducting gap parameters which give equally description of experimental data: (i) two gaps with approximately equal amplitudes and weight contribution to specific heat: isotropic Δ1=1.7 meV (2Δ1/kBTc=4.7) and anisotropic gap with the amplitude Δ2max=1.8 meV (2Δ2max/kBTc=4.9 and anisotropy parameter m=0.85); (ii) two gaps with substantially different values: isotropic large gap Δ1=1.65 meV (2Δ1/kBTc=4.52) and anisotropic small gap Δ2max=0.75 meV (2Δ2max/kBTc=2) with anisotropy parameter m=0.71. These results are confirmed by the field behavior of the residual electronic specific heat γr.

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2017.10.041

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2017.10.041;
PII
S0921452617307743;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
536
Journal Page Range
p. 785-789
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

Conference

Title
International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
Acronym
SCES 2017
Dates
17-21 Jul 2017
Place
Prague (Czech Republic)

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