Low-energy spin excitations in the optimally doped CaFe 0.88 Co 0.12 AsF superconductor studied with inelastic neutron scattering
Résumé
There are few inelastic neutron scattering (INS) reports on the superconducting single crystals of the FeAs-1111 system, even though it was first discovered in 2008, due to the extreme difficulty in large singlecrystal growth. In this paper, we have studied the low-energy spin excitations in optimally electron-doped CaFe0.88Co0.12AsF single crystals with Tc = 21 K by INS. The resonance energy of the superconducting spin resonant mode with Er = 12 meV amounts to 6.6kBTc, which constitutes a large Er/kBTc ratio among ironbased superconductors. The large ratio implies a strong coupling between conduction electrons and magnetic excitations in CaFe0.88Co0.12AsF. The resonance possesses a magnonlike upward dispersion along the transverse direction due to the anisotropy of the spin-spin correlation length within the ab plane in the normal state, which points to a spin fluctuation mediated sign-reversed s± wave pairing in CaFe0.88Co0.12AsF
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