Pranab Kumar Nag, Kirsty Scott, Vanuildo S. de Carvalho, Journey K. Byland, Xinze Yang, Morgan Walker, Aaron G. Greenberg, Peter Klavins, Eduardo Miranda, Adrian Gozar, Valentin Taufour, Rafael M. Fernandes, Eduardo H. da Silva Neto
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Highly anisotropic superconducting gap near the nematic quantum critical point of FeSe1−xSx
Nematic phases, in which electrons in a solid spontaneously break rotational symmetry while preserving translational symmetry, exist in several families of unconventional superconductors. Superconductivity mediated by nematic fluctuations is well established theoretically, but it has yet to be unambiguously identified experimentally. One major challenge is that nematicity is often intertwined with other degrees of freedom, such as magnetism and charge order. The FeSe1−xSx family of superconductors provides an opportunity to explore this concept, as it features an isolated nematic phase that can be suppressed by sulfur substitution at a quantum critical point where the nematic fluctuations are the largest. Here we determine the momentum structure of the superconducting gap near the centre of the Brillouin zone in FeSe0.81S0.19—close to the quantum critical point—and find that it is anisotropic and nearly nodal. The gap minima occur in a direction that is rotated 45° with respect to the Fe–Fe direction, unlike the usual isotropic gaps due to spin-mediated pairing in other tetragonal Fe-based superconductors. Instead, we find that the gap structure agrees with theoretical predictions for superconductivity mediated by nematic fluctuations, indicating a change in the pairing mechanism across the phase diagram of FeSe1−xSx.
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