Resilient Nodeless d-Wave Superconductivity in Monolayer FeSe. 2017

D F Agterberg, and T Shishidou, and J O'Halloran, and P M R Brydon, and M Weinert
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA.

Monolayer FeSe exhibits the highest transition temperature among the iron based superconductors and appears to be fully gapped, seemingly consistent with s-wave superconductivity. Here, we develop a theory for the superconductivity based on coupling to fluctuations of checkerboard magnetic order (which has the same translation symmetry as the lattice). The electronic states are described by a symmetry based k·p-like theory and naturally account for the states observed by angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We show that a prediction of this theory is that the resultant superconducting state is a fully gapped, nodeless, d-wave state. This state, which would usually have nodes, stays nodeless because, as seen experimentally, the relevant spin-orbit coupling has an energy scale smaller than the superconducting gap.

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