PQI Seminar: Peter Hirschfeld (University of Florida)

October 18, 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Title: Orbital selective pairing in Fe-based superconductors

 

Abstract: Iron-based superconductors are unconventional superconductors with relatively high Tc that derive from metallic parent compounds with several Fe d-states dominant at the Fermi level. This gives rise to a number of novel effects based on differentiated degree of correlation of the different orbital states. I discuss the influence on spin-fluctuation pairing theory of orbital selective strong correlation effects in Fe-based superconductors, particularly Fe chalcogenide systems. This paradigm yields remarkably good agreement with the experimentally observed anisotropic gap structures in both bulk and monolayer FeSe, as well as LiFeAs, indicating that orbital selective Cooper pairing plays a key role in the more strongly correlated iron-based superconductors. Recently new experiments such as quasiparticle interference and inelastic neutron scattering, have observed similar effects in the normal state, which can also be understood in the framework of this theory.

Location and Address

321 Allen Hall