Published July 11, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Spin fluctuations in the ultranodal superconducting state of Fe(Se,S)

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32603, USA
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice Center for Quantum Materials, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
  • 3. Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Jagtvej 155, DK-2200, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 4. Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi (ISC-CNR), Via dei Taurini 19, I-00185 Rome, Italy

Description

The iron-based superconductor FeSe isovalently substituted with S displays an abundance of remarkable phenomena that have not been fully understood, at the center of which are apparent zero-energy excitations in the superconducting state in the tetragonal phase. The phenomenology has been generally consistent with the proposal of the so-called ultranodal states where Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces (BFSs) are present. Recently, nuclear magnetic resonance measurements have seen unusually large upturns in the relaxation rate as temperature decreases to nearly zero in these systems, calling for theoretical investigations. In this paper, we calculate the spin susceptibility of an ultranodal superconductor including correlation effects within the random phase ap- proximation. Although the noninteracting mean-field calculation rarely gives an upturn in the low-temperature relaxation rate within our model, we found that correlation strongly enhances scattering between coherent parts of the BFS, resulting in robust upturns when the interaction is strong. Our results suggest that, in addition to the presence of BFSs, correlation and multiband physics also play important roles in the low-energy excitations of the system.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.110.L020503;
arXiv
arXiv:2404.03846;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100007601; 10.13039/100010665; 10.13039/100000015;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review B
Journal Volume
110
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
7 pgs.
ISSN
1550-235X

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Copyright
©2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
838526; DE-FG02-05ER46236
Notes
Contact Email: Contact author: yifucao@ufl.edu; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
Horizon 2020; H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions; U.S. Department of Energy