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Neutron inelastic scattering peak by dissipationless mechanism in the s++-wave state in iron-based superconductors

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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 84, Issue 14, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.144518

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  1. MEXT of Japan
  2. JST, TRIP
  3. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22740222, 20102008] Funding Source: KAKEN

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We investigate the neutron scattering spectrum in iron pnictides based on the random-phase approximation in the five-orbital model with a realistic superconducting (SC) gap, Delta = 5 meV. In the normal state, the neutron spectrum is suppressed by large inelastic quasiparticle (QP) scattering rate. gamma* similar to Delta. In the fully-gapped s-wave state without sign reversal (s(++)), a hump-shaped enhancement appears in the neutron spectrum just above 2 Delta, since the inelastic QP scattering is prohibited by the SC gap. That is, the hump structure is produced by the dissipationless QPs for QP energy E-k < 3 Delta. The obtained result is more consistent with experimental spectra, compared to the results of our previous paper with Delta = 50 meV. On the other hand, both height and weight of the resonance peak in the fully-gapped s-wave states with sign reversal (s(+/-)) are much larger than those observed in experiments. We conclude that the experimentally observed broad spectral peak in iron pnictides is created by the present dissipationless mechanism in the s(++)-wave state.

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