Nematic resonance in the Raman response of iron-based superconductors

Abstract

In a fully-gapped superconductor the electronic Raman response has a pair-breaking peak at twice the superconducting gap $\Delta$, if the Bogoliubov excitations are uncorrelated. Motivated by the iron based superconductors, we study how this peak is modified if the superconducting phase hosts a nematic-structural quantum critical point. We show that, upon approaching this point by tuning, e.g., doping, the growth of nematic correlations between the quasiparticles transforms the pair-breaking peak into a nematic resonance. The mode energy is below 2$\Delta$, and stays finite at the quantum critical point, where its spectral weight is sharply enhanced. The latter is consistent with recent experiments on electron-doped iron based superconductors and provides direct evidence of nematic correlations in their superconducting phases.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 017001 (2016)

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