Publication Date:
2011-06-18
Description:
We investigated the electron-pairing mechanism in an iron-based superconductor, iron selenide (FeSe), using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. Tunneling conductance spectra of stoichiometric FeSe crystalline films in their superconducting state revealed evidence for a gap function with nodal lines. Electron pairing with twofold symmetry was demonstrated by direct imaging of quasiparticle excitations in the vicinity of magnetic vortex cores, Fe adatoms, and Se vacancies. The twofold pairing symmetry was further supported by the observation of striped electronic nanostructures in the slightly Se-doped samples. The anisotropy can be explained in terms of the orbital-dependent reconstruction of electronic structure in FeSe.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Song, Can-Li -- Wang, Yi-Lin -- Cheng, Peng -- Jiang, Ye-Ping -- Li, Wei -- Zhang, Tong -- Li, Zhi -- He, Ke -- Wang, Lili -- Jia, Jin-Feng -- Hung, Hsiang-Hsuan -- Wu, Congjun -- Ma, Xucun -- Chen, Xi -- Xue, Qi-Kun -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Jun 17;332(6036):1410-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1202226.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉State Key Laboratory for Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, the People's Republic of China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21680839" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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