Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
Department of Physics, Beijing Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Functional Materials and Micro-nano Devices, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China.
Nat Commun. 2017 Apr 19;8:14988. doi: 10.1038/ncomms14988.
The origin of enhanced superconductivity over 50 K in the recently discovered FeSe monolayer films grown on SrTiO (STO), as compared to 8 K in bulk FeSe, is intensely debated. As with the ferrochalcogenides AFeSe and potassium-doped FeSe, which also have a relatively high-superconducting critical temperature (T), the Fermi surface (FS) of the FeSe/STO monolayer films is free of hole-like FS, suggesting that a Lifshitz transition by which these hole FSs vanish may help increasing T. However, the fundamental reasons explaining this increase of T remain unclear. Here we report a 15 K jump of T accompanying a second Lifshitz transition characterized by the emergence of an electron pocket at the Brillouin zone centre, which is triggered by high-electron doping following in situ deposition of potassium on FeSe/STO monolayer films. Our results suggest that the pairing interactions are orbital dependent in generating enhanced superconductivity in FeSe.
在 SrTiO(STO)上生长的 FeSe 单层膜中发现的超导增强现象,其超导转变温度超过 50K,相比之下,体相 FeSe 的超导转变温度仅为 8K。与具有相对较高超导转变温度(T)的铁硫族化合物 AFeSe 和钾掺杂的 FeSe 类似,FeSe/STO 单层膜的费米面(FS)中没有空穴型 FS,这表明费米面的 Lifshitz 转变可能有助于提高 T。然而,解释 T 增加的基本原因仍不清楚。在这里,我们报告了 T 的 15K 跃变,这伴随着第二个 Lifshitz 转变,其特征是布里渊区中心出现电子口袋,这是通过在原位沉积钾后对 FeSe/STO 单层膜进行高电子掺杂而触发的。我们的结果表明,在 FeSe 中,配对相互作用与轨道有关,这导致了超导增强。