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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 124, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.237001
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- Simons Many-Electron Collaboration
- EPSRC Tier-2 capital Grant [EP/P020259/1]
- EPSRC [EP/P020259/1, EP/M011631/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Recent observations of selective emergence (suppression) of superconductivity in the uncollapsed (collapsed) tetragonal phase of LaFe2As2 has rekindled interest in understanding what features of the band structure control the superconducting T-c. We show that the proximity of the narrow Fe-d(xy) state to the Fermi energy emerges as the primary factor. In the uncollapsed phase this state is at the Fermi energy, and is most strongly correlated and a source of enhanced scattering in both single and two particle channels. The resulting intense and broad low energy spin fluctuations suppress magnetic ordering and simultaneously provide glue for Cooper pair formation. In the collapsed tetragonal phase, the d(xy) state is driven far below the Fermi energy, which suppresses the low-energy scattering and blocks superconductivity. A similar source of broad spin excitation appears in uncollapsed and collapsed phases of CaFe2As2. This suggests controlling coherence provides a way to engineer T-c in unconventional superconductors primarily mediated through spin fluctuations.
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