Optical conductivity and electronic Raman response of cuprate superconductors

We present the results of detailed analytical calculations for the in-plane optical conductivity and the electronic Raman susceptibility in quasi two-dimensional systems possessing a ground state with two competing order parameters: a d-wave density wave (dDW) and d-wave superconductor (dSC). In the coexisting dDW+dSC phase we determine the frequency dependence of these correlation functions in the presence of randomly distributed non-magnetic impurities in the unitary limit.     

新型铁基超导体角分辨光电子能谱研究

最近发现的新型122结构的铁基超导体掀起了铁基高温超导研究的又一轮热潮.文章利用角分辨光电子能谱实验手段,研究了这类新型铁基材料的电子结构、费米面拓扑和超导能隙.实验结果表明,其在布里渊区中心的能带结构及费米面与其他铁基超导体存在明显差异,并导致嵌套在粒子-空穴通道的费米面消失.另外,在布里渊区边缘的电子型费米面发现了较强的并且有各向同性的超导能隙.这些结果对可能的超导配对机制提出了严格的限制.     

新型铁基超导体角分辨光电子能谱研究

最近发现的新型122结构的铁基超导体掀起了铁基高温超导研究的又一轮热潮.文章利用角分辨光电子能谱实验手段,研究了这类新型铁基材料的电子结构、费米面拓扑和超导能隙.实验结果表明,其在布里渊区中心的能带结构及费米面与其他铁基超导体存在明显差异,并导致嵌套在粒子-空穴通道的费米面消失.另外,在布里渊区边缘的电子型费米面发现了较强的并且有各向同性的超导能隙.这些结果对可能的超导配对机制提出了严格的限制.     

Electronic structure of Fe-based superconductors

The electronic structure of the Fe-based superconductors is discussed, mainly from the point of view of first principles calculations in relation to experimental data. Comparisons and contrasts with cuprates are made. The problem of reconciling experiments indicating an s symmetry gap with experiments indicating line nodes is discussed and a possible resolution is given.     

铁基超导体中的长程反铁磁序

文章回顾了用中子散射技术对铁基超导体中所存在的三维长程反铁磁序进行研究的进展. 大多数铁基超导体母体的晶体结构在温度降低时都经历了从四方相变化到正交相或单斜相的结构相变. 在此相变温度之下,自旋系统也从顺磁变化到三维长程反铁磁. 在掺杂之后,结构相变和磁相变都被压制,而超导则最终出现. 文章详细介绍了各种母体中的三维反铁磁结构及其自旋波频谱,并讨论了掺杂对反铁磁相变和晶格相变的影响.     

铁基超导体中的长程反铁磁序

文章回顾了用中子散射技术对铁基超导体中所存在的三维长程反铁磁序进行研究的进展.大多数铁基超导体母体的晶体结构在温度降低时都经历了从四方相变化到正交相或单斜相的结构相变.在此相变温度之下,自旋系统也从顺磁变化到三维长程反铁磁.在掺杂之后,结构相变和磁相变都被压制,而超导则最终出现.文章详细介绍了各种母体中的三维反铁磁结构及其自旋波频谱,并讨论了掺杂对反铁磁相变和晶格相变的影响.     

新型铁基超导体材料的研究进展

文章主要介绍了碱金属插层法合成新型铁基超导体的研究进展.通过采用碱金属K对FeSe层状材料插层的方法,得到了一种新型的铁基超导体K0.8Fe1.7Se2,并对该材料的晶体结构与物性进行了研究.结果表明,该化合物的超导转变温度达到30K,这是FeSe体系在常压下的最高超导转变温度.同时,观察到该体系中存在转变温度为43K的超导相,但未得到纯相.通过磁性元素Co的掺杂研究,进一步加深了对K0.8Fe1.7Se2体系超导演化规律的认识.该超导体的发现对深入认识铁基超导体的超导机理,探索具有更高超导转变温度的铁基超导体具有重要意义     

新型铁基超导体材料的研究进展

文章主要介绍了碱金属插层法合成新型铁基超导体的研究进展.通过采用碱金属K对FeSe层状材料插层的方法,得到了一种新型的铁基超导体K0.8Fe1.7Se2,并对该材料的晶体结构与物性进行了研究.结果表明,该化合物的超导转变温度达到30K,这是FeSe体系在常压下的最高超导转变温度.同时,观察到该体系中存在转变温度为43K的超导相,但未得到纯相.通过磁性元素Co的掺杂研究,进一步加深了对K0.8Fe1.7Se2体系超导演化规律的认识.该超导体的发现对深入认识铁基超导体的超导机理,探索具有更高超导转变温度的铁基超导体具有重要意义.     

Mössbauer spectroscopy studies of oxypnictides superconductors

The contribution of Mössbauer spectroscopy to the study of conventional superconducting materials, Chevrel phases, rare earth rhodium borides, high T_c cuprates, and Ru-based superconducting-magnetic systems are very shortly reviewed. The newly discovered oxypnictides, magnetic and superconducting (mostly the Fe–As) systems, are discussed in great detail.     

Optical conductivity studies of high‐Tc superconductors

A study of the optical conductivity spectra of high‐T_c copper oxides elucidates the evolution of superconducting gap and magnetic penetration depth (superfluid density) with doping. It is complementary to the μSR study and provides microscopic basis for the μSR results. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

High energy pseudogap and its evolution with doping in Fe-based superconductors as revealed by optical spectroscopy

We report optical spectroscopic measurements on electron- and hole-doped BaFe2As2. We show that the compounds in the normal state are not simple metals. The optical conductivity spectra contain, in addition to the free carrier response at low frequency, a temperature-dependent gap-like suppression at fairly high energy scale near 0.6 eV. This suppression evolves with the As–Fe–As bond angle induced by electron or hole doping. Furthermore, the feature becomes much weaker in the Fe-chalcogenide compounds. We elaborate that the feature is mainly caused by the strong Hund's rule coupling effect between the itinerant electrons and localized electron moment arising from the multiple Fe 3d orbitals. The coupling strength changes with the environment of the Fe atom. Our experiments demonstrate the coexistence of itinerant and localized electrons in iron-based compounds, which would then lead to a more comprehensive picture of the metallic magnetism in the materials.     

Physics picture from neutron scattering study on Fe-based superconductors

Neutron scattering, with its ability to measure the crystal structure, the magnetic order, and the structural and magnetic excitations, plays an active role in investigating various families of Fe-based high-T c superconductors. Three different types of antiferromagnetic orders have been discovered in the Fe plane, but two of them cannot be explained by the spin-density-wave (SDW) mechanism of nesting Fermi surfaces. Noticing the close relation between antiferromagnetic order and lattice distortion in orbital ordering from previous studies on manganites and other oxides, we have advocated orbital ordering as the underlying common mechanism for the structural and antiferromagnetic transitions in the 1111, 122, and 11 parent compounds. We observe the coexistence of antiferromagnetic order and superconductivity in the (Ba,K)Fe 2 As 2 system, when its phase separation is generally accepted. Optimal T c is proposed to be controlled by the local FeAs 4 tetrahedron from our investigation on the 1111 materials. The Bloch phase coherence of the Fermi liquid is found crucial to the occurrence of bulk superconductivity in iron chalcogenides of both the 11 and the 245 families. Iron chalcogenides carry a larger staggered magnetic moment ( 2 μ B /Fe) than that in iron pnictides ( 1 μ B /Fe) in the antiferromagnetic order. Normal state magnetic excitations in the 11 superconductor are of the itinerant nature while in the 245 superconductor the spin-waves of localized moments. The observation of superconducting resonance peak provides a crucial piece of information in current deliberation of the pairing symmetry in Fe-based superconductors.     

Raman spectroscopy and polarization: Selected case studies

We show, through several selected case studies, the potential benefits that can be obtained by controlling the polarization states of the exciting and scattered radiations in a Raman scattering experiment. When coupled with polarization control, Raman spectroscopy is thus capable of providing extra information on the structural properties of the materials under investigation. The experimental examples presented in this work are taken from the area of both conventional, i.e., far-field, as well as from near-field Raman spectroscopy. They cover topics such as the stress tensor measurement in strained semiconductor structures, the vibration mode assignment in pentacene thin films and the Raman scattering tensor determination from near-field measurements on azobenzene monolayers. The basic theory necessary for modelling the far- and near-field polarized Raman responses is also given and the model efficiency is illustrated on the experimental data.     

Raman studies of the high pressure effects in high Tc superconductors

Abstract

The effect of a hydrostatic pressure (up to 6GPa) on the Raman spectra of YBa₂Cu₃O_x(x = 6.5 and overdoped) single crystals is investigated in the temperature range 77-300 K in connection with all available data in the literature for the other oxygen concentrations. All five strong modes (4A_g+1B_1g) are examined for both oxygen doping and compared with previously published results. From the systematic investigation of the phonon spectral characteristics with the application of pressure, the formation or disappearance of the phases is examined. The results provide a spectroscopic support for the changes induced by the hydrostatic pressure on the chain ordering and the corresponding phases.     

High temperature Raman spectroscopy studies of carbon nanowalls

High temperature Raman experiments were carried out on carbon nanowalls (CNWs). The intensity of the defect‐induced D mode decreased significantly after the sample was heated in air ambient. The Raman intensity ratio of D mode and G mode, I_D/I_G, changed from 2.3 at room temperature to 1.95 after the sample was heated to 600 °C. This change was attributed to the removal of surface amorphous carbon by oxidation. In contrast to I_D/I_G, the intensity ratio of the D′ mode and the G mode, I_D′/I_G, did not change much after heating, indicating that the surface amorphous carbon and surface impurity do not contribute as much to the intensity of the D′ mode. The dominant contributor to the D′ mode could be the intrinsic defects. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

铁基超导体系基于电子关联强度的统一相图

铁基超导和铜基超导具有诸多相似性,这为建立统一的高温超导机理图像提供了可能性.然而,对铁基超导体系中无论是进行电荷掺杂、还是等价掺杂来改变化学压力,都能产生定性上类似、而细节上纷繁复杂的相图,这对建立统一的图像造成了困难.研究化学掺杂效应如何在微观上影响电子结构和超导电性,区分主导超导电性演化的主要因素和次要因素,对建立统一图像和揭示高温超导机理至关重要.本文综述了对铁基超导体系中化学掺杂效应的一系列角分辨光电子能谱研究,涵盖了基于FeAs和FeSe面的多种代表性铁基超导体系,包括异价掺杂、等价掺杂、在元胞不同位置的化学掺杂,及其对电子体系在费米面结构、杂质散射、电子关联强度等方面的影响.实验结果表明：电子关联性或能带宽度是多个铁基超导相图背后的普适参数,不同的晶格和杂质散射效应导致了并不重要的复杂细节,而费米面拓扑结构与超导电性的关联并不强.这些结果对弱耦合机理图像提出了挑战,并促使人们通过局域反铁磁交换作用配对图像在带宽演化层面上统一地理解铁基超导.     

高温超导体电子结构和超导机理的角分辨光电子能谱研究

超导是一种奇异的宏观量子现象.100多年来,已发现的超导体主要分为两类:以金属或者合金为代表的常规超导体以及以铜氧化物和铁基高温超导体为代表的非常规超导体.常规超导体的超导机理能被BCS超导理论完美解释,但高温超导体的超导机理至今仍未达成共识,已经成为凝聚态物理领域中长期争论且充满挑战的重大科学问题.从实验上揭示非常规超导材料的微观电子结构,是理解其奇异正常态和超导电性机理、建立新理论的前提和基础.角分辨光电子能谱技术,由于可以实现对材料中电子的能量、动量和自旋的直接测量,在高温超导研究中发挥了重要的作用.本文综述了我们利用角分辨光电子能谱技术在铜氧化物和铁基高温超导体电子结构和超导机理研究中取得的一些进展,主要包括母体的电子结构、正常态的非费米液体行为、超导态的能带和超导能隙结构以及多体相互作用等.这些结果为理解铜氧化物和铁基高温超导体的物性及超导机理提供了重要的信息.     

Irreversibility lines of layered Fe-based superconductors with thick blocking layers

Irreversibility lines of the layered iron-arsenide superconductors with thick perovskite-type oxide blocking layers have been systematically studied. Five compounds with different interlayer distance between iron layers from 1.5 to 3.0 nm were selected for the magnetization measurements. These compounds showed very large magnetically reversible region. The irreversibility lines of these compounds were found to locate at very low fields compared to the other iron-based superconductors and shift towards lower fields with an increase in the thickness of the blocking layer. In addition, the analysis on the irreversibility line suggested that the change of dimensionality of the vortex system occurs at $T/T_c～0.6$. These results indicate that the electromagnetic anisotropy originated from the layered crystal structure plays a crucial role to determine the irreversibility line and magnetic phase diagram of layered iron arsenides as is the case in the layered cuprates.     

Theoretical investigation of the superconducting gaps in the Fe-based superconductors

Based on an antiferromagnetic (AFM) spin fluctuation approximation, we study the superconducting gaps in Fe-based compound using two-band model. We find that our results are consistent with the previous work that concludes sign-reversal extended s-wave pairings between different Fermi surface sheets. The different superconducting gap magnitude around different Fermi surface sheets is probably due to the different density of states on them. This calculation can give insight to the recent angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) experiments on these materials. To detect the phase variation of the superconducting gap over the Fermi surfaces, we propose a new method for measuring the particular wave vector phonon linewidth. In the case of the sign-reversal superconducting pairing, the linewidth shows continuities compared to the case of no phase variation.