Nodeless multiband superconductivity in stoichiometric single-crystalline CaKFe4 As4

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2017-03-01
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Cho, Kyuil
Fente, A.
Teknowijoyo, S.
Tanatar, Makariy
Joshi, Kamal
Nusran, Naufer
Kong, Tai
Meier, William
Kaluarachchi, Udhara
Guillamon, I.
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Measurements of the London penetration depth Δλ(T) and tunneling conductance in single crystals of the recently discovered stoichiometric iron-based superconductor CaKFe4As4 (CaK1144) show nodeless, two-effective-gap superconductivity with a larger gap of about 6–10 meV and a smaller gap of about 1–4 meV. Having a critical temperature Tc,onset≈35.8 K, this material behaves similar to slightly overdoped (Ba1−xKx)Fe2As2 (e.g., x=0.54,Tc≈34 K), a known multigap s± superconductor. We conclude that the superconducting behavior of stoichiometric CaK1144 demonstrates that two-gap s± superconductivity is an essential property of high-temperature superconductivity in iron-based superconductors, independent of the degree of substitutional disorder.

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This article is published as Cho, Kyuil, A. Fente, S. Teknowijoyo, M. A. Tanatar, K. R. Joshi, N. M. Nusran, T. Kong, W. R. Meier, U. Kaluarachchi, I. Guillamon, H. Suderow, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, and R. Prozorov. "Nodeless multiband superconductivity in stoichiometric single-crystalline CaKFe4 As4." Physical Review B 95, no. 10 (2017): 100502. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.100502. Posted with permission.

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