Evidence of a pseudogap driven by competing orders of multi-band origin in the ferromagnetic superconductor Sr${}_{0.5}$Ce${}_{0.5}$FBiS${}_2$

Abstract

From temperature and magnetic field dependent point-contact spectroscopy on the ferromagnetic superconductor Sr${}_{0.5}$Ce${}_{0.5}$FBiS${}_2$ (bulk superconducting $T_c$ = 2.5 K) we observe (a) a pseudogap in the normal state that sustains to a remarkably high temperature of 40 K and (b) two-fold enhancement of $T_c$ upto 5 K in the point-contact geometry. In addition, Andreev reflection spectroscopy reveals a superconducting gap of 6 meV for certain point-contacts suggesting that the mean field $T_c$ of this system could be approximately 40 K, the onset temperature of pseudo-gap. Our results suggest that quantum fluctuations originating from other competing orders in Sr${}_{0.5}$Ce${}_{0.5}$FBiS${}_2$ forbid a global phase coherence at high temperatures thereby suppressing $T_c$. Apart from the known ordering to a ferromagnetic state, our first-principles calculations reveal nesting of a multi-band Fermi surface and a significant electron-phonon coupling that could result in charge density wave-like instabilities.

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