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Evolution of the low-temperature Fermi surface of superconducting FeSeS across a nematic phase transition

npj Quantum Materials, ISSN: 2397-4648, Vol: 4, Issue: 1
2019
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The existence of a nematic phase transition in iron-chalcogenide superconductors poses an intriguing question about its impact on superconductivity. To understand the nature of this unique quantum phase transition, it is essential to study how the electronic structure changes across this transition at low temperatures. Here, we investigate the evolution of the Fermi surfaces and electronic interactions across the nematic phase transition of FeSeS using Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in high magnetic fields up to 45 T in the low temperature regime down to 0.4 K. Most of the Fermi surfaces of FeSeS monotonically increase in size except for a prominent low frequency oscillation associated with a small, but highly mobile band, which disappears at the nematic phase boundary near x ~ 0.17, indicative of a topological Lifshitz transition. The quasiparticle masses are larger inside the nematic phase, indicative of a strongly correlated state, but they become suppressed outside it. The experimentally observed changes in the Fermi surface topology, together with the varying degree of electronic correlations, will change the balance of electronic interactions in the multi-band system FeSeS and promote different k-dependent superconducting pairing channels inside and outside the nematic phase.

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Coldea, Amalia I.; Blake, Samuel F.; Kasahara, Shigeru; Haghighirad, Amir A.; Watson, Matthew D.; Knafo, William; Choi, Eun Sang; McCollam, Alix; Reiss, Pascal; Yamashita, Takuya; Bruma, Mara; Speller, Susannah C.; Matsuda, Yuji; Wolf, Thomas; Shibauchi, Takasada; Schofield, Andrew J.

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Materials Science; Physics and Astronomy

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