Comment on "Nonmagnetic Impurity Resonances as a Signature of Sign-Reversal Pairing in Fe-As-Based Superconductors"

Abstract

In a recent Letter [PRL 103, 186402 (2009)], the energy band structure of Fe-As-based superconductors is fitted with a tight-binding model with two Fe ions per unit cell and two degenerate xz and yz orbitals per Fe ion. The author claims that the proposed model, which differs markedly from a model previously used by other authors for the same two orbitals in the same compounds, possesses the symmetry required to describe the Fe-As planes in iron-pnictide superconductors. In this comment we argue that this is not the case.

Comment on PRL 103, 186402 (2009)

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