Importance of Fermi surface topology for high temperature superconductivity in electron-doped iron arsenic superconductors

Abstract

We used angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy and thermoelectric power to study the poorly explored, highly overdoped side of the phase diagram of Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 high temperature superconductor. Our data demonstrate that several Lifshitz transitions - topological changes of the Fermi surface - occur for large x. Tc starts to decrease with doping when the cylindrical, central hole pocket changes to ellipsoids centering at the Z point, and goes to zero before these ellipsoids disappear around x = 0.2. Changes in thermoelectric power occur at similar x-values. Beyond this doping level the central pocket changes to electron-like and superconductivity does not exist. Our observations reveal the crucial importance of the underlying Fermiology in this class of materials. A necessary condition for superconductivity is the presence of the central hole pockets rather than perfect nesting between central and corner pockets.

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