Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Phys Rev Lett. 2019 Feb 15;122(6):066802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.066802.
The observation of substantially enhanced superconductivity of single-layer FeSe films on SrTiO_{3} has stimulated intensive research interest. At present, conclusive experimental data on the corresponding electron-boson interaction is still missing. Here we use inelastic electron scattering spectroscopy and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy to show that the electrons in these systems are dressed by the strongly polarized lattice distortions of the SrTiO_{3}, and the indispensable nonadiabatic nature of such a coupling leads to the formation of dynamic interfacial polarons. Furthermore, the collective motion of the polarons results in a polaronic plasmon mode, which is unambiguously correlated with the surface phonons of SrTiO_{3} in the presence of the FeSe films. A microscopic model is developed showing that the interfacial polaron-polaron interaction leads to the superconductivity enhancement.
在 SrTiO3 上的单层 FeSe 薄膜中观察到的显著增强的超导性激发了人们的研究兴趣。目前,关于相应的电子-声子相互作用的结论性实验数据仍然缺失。在这里,我们使用非弹性电子散射光谱和角分辨光发射光谱表明,这些体系中的电子被 SrTiO3 的强烈极化晶格畸变所修饰,而这种耦合的不可避免的非绝热性质导致了动态界面极化子的形成。此外,极化子的集体运动导致极化子等离子体模式的形成,该模式与存在 FeSe 薄膜时 SrTiO3 的表面声子明确相关。所提出的微观模型表明,界面极化子-极化子相互作用导致超导性增强。