Close relationship between superconductivity and the bosonic mode in Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2 and Na(Fe0.975Co0.025)As

Abstract

Since the discovery of high temperature superconductivity in the iron pnictides and chalcogenides in early 2008, a central issue has been the microscopic origin of the superconducting pairing. Although previous experiments suggest that the pairing may be induced by exchanging the antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations and the superconducting order parameter has opposite signs in the electron and hole pockets as predicted by the S+- pairing model, it remains unclear whether there is a bosonic mode from the tunneling spectrum which has a close and universal relationship with superconductivity as well as the spin excitation. In this paper, based on the measurements of scanning tunneling spectroscopy, we show the clear evidence of a bosonic mode with the energy identical to that of the neutron spin resonance in two completely different systems Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2 and Na(Fe0.975Co0.025)As with different superconducting transition temperatures. In both samples, the superconducting coherence peaks and the mode feature vanish simultaneously inside the vortex core or above Tc, indicating a close relationship between superconductivity and the bosonic mode. Our data also demonstrate a universal ratio between the mode energy and superconducting transition temperature, that is [mode energy]/kBTc ~ 4.3, which underlines the unconventional mechanism of superconductivity in the iron pnictide superconductors.

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