The Triplet Resonating Valence Bond State and Superconductivity in Hund's Metals: III Phenomenology in iron based superconductors.

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Abstract

Based on the triplet Resonating Valence Bond concept introduced in the previous two talks, I will discuss the prospects and signatures of this theory in the context of iron based superconductors. I will explicitly concentrate on the spin-triplet, orbital antisymmetric pairing state as derived in part II and on four experimental techniques of fundamental interest: (1) nuclear magnetic resonance, (2) neutron scattering, (3) tunneling spectroscopy, (4) scanning Josephson tunneling microscopy. First, I will demonstrate that this pairing state develops an anisotropic, partial suppression of the Knight shift and discuss existing experimental data on single crystals. Second and third, I will demonstrate that the relative sign between triplet d-vectors of electron and hole pockets crucially affects finite frequency spin-susceptibility and local density of states. I will discuss the consequences thereof for key experimental observables, i.e. a sharp subgap spin-resonance and characteristic quasi-particle interference patterns, that previously were interpreted as evidence for s+- pairing. Finally, I describe experimental signatures of the staggered order parameter in scanning Josephson microscopy.

*This work was supported by DOE Basic Energy Sciences grant DE-FG02-99ER45790.

Presenters

  • Elio Koenig

    • Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Authors

  • Piers Coleman

    • Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    • Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Materials Theory, Rutgers University
  • Yashar Komijani

    • Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    • Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  • Elio Koenig

    • Rutgers University, New Brunswick