Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 88, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.174516
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory by the Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy
- [DOE DE-FG02-05ER4623]
- [ZA 654/1-1]
- [BO1912/2-2]
- [BE1749/13]
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The lack of nesting of the electron and hole Fermi-surface sheets in the Fe-based superconductor LiFeAs, with a critical temperature of 18 K, has led to questions as to whether the origin of superconductivity in this material might be different from other Fe-based superconductors. Both angle-resolved photoemission and quasiparticle interference experiments have reported fully gapped superconducting order parameters with significant anisotropy. The system is also of interest because relatively strong correlations seem to be responsible for significant renormalization of the hole bands. Here we present calculations of the superconducting gap and pairing in the random-phase approximation using Fermi surfaces derived from measured photoemission spectra. The qualitative features of the gaps obtained in these calculations are shown to be different from previous two-dimensional theoretical works and in good agreement with experiment on the main Fermi-surface pockets. We analyze the contributions to the pairing vertex thus obtained and show that the scattering processes between electron and hole pockets that are believed to dominate the pairing in other Fe-based superconductors continue to do so in LiFeAs despite the lack of nesting, leading to gaps with anisotropic s(+/-) structure. Some interesting differences relating to the enhanced d(xy) orbital content of the LiFeAs Fermi surface are noted.
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