Li Yu, Shen Dingyu, Kreisel Andreas, Chen Cheng, Wei Tianheng, Xu Xiaotong, Wang Jian
International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing100871, China.
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, D-04103Leipzig, Germany.
Nano Lett. 2023 Jan 11;23(1):140-147. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03735. Epub 2022 Nov 30.
The iron-based superconductors are an ideal platform to reveal the enigma of the unconventional superconductivity and potential topological superconductivity. Among them, the monolayer Fe(Se,Te)/SrTiO(001), which is proposed to be topological nontrivial, shows interface-enhanced high-temperature superconductivity in the two-dimensional limit. However, the experimental studies on the superconducting pairing mechanism of monolayer Fe(Se,Te) films are still limited. Here, by measuring the quasiparticle interference in monolayer Fe(Se,Te)/SrTiO(001), we report the observation of the anisotropic structure of the large superconducting gap and the sign change of the superconducting gap on different electron pockets. The results are well consistent with the "bonding-antibonding" -wave pairing symmetry driven by spin fluctuations in conjunction with spin-orbit coupling. Our work is of basic significance not only for a unified superconducting formalism in the iron-based superconductors, but also for understanding of topological superconductivity in high-temperature superconductors.
铁基超导体是揭示非常规超导性之谜和潜在拓扑超导性的理想平台。其中,被认为具有非平凡拓扑性质的单层Fe(Se,Te)/SrTiO(001)在二维极限下表现出界面增强的高温超导性。然而,关于单层Fe(Se,Te)薄膜超导配对机制的实验研究仍然有限。在此,通过测量单层Fe(Se,Te)/SrTiO(001)中的准粒子干涉,我们报告了对大超导能隙的各向异性结构以及不同电子口袋上超导能隙符号变化的观测结果。这些结果与由自旋涨落结合自旋轨道耦合驱动的“成键 - 反键”波配对对称性高度一致。我们的工作不仅对于铁基超导体中统一的超导形式理论具有基础意义,而且对于理解高温超导体中的拓扑超导性也具有重要意义。