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Evidence of electron interaction with an unidentified bosonic mode in superconductor CsCa 2 Fe 4 As 4 F 2 .

Peng LiSen LiaoZhi-Cheng WangHuaxun LiShiwu SuJiakang ZhangZiyuan ChenZhicheng JiangZhengtai LiuLexian YangLinwei HuaiJun-Feng HeShengtao CuiZhe SunYa-Jun YanGuang-Han CaoDawei ShenJuan JiangDong-Lai Feng
Published in: Nature communications (2024)
The kink structure in band dispersion usually refers to a certain electron-boson interaction, which is crucial in understanding the pairing in unconventional superconductors. Here we report the evidence of the observation of a kink structure in Fe-based superconductor CsCa 2 Fe 4 As 4 F 2 using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. The kink shows an orbital selective and momentum dependent behavior, which is located at 15 meV below Fermi level along the Γ - M direction at the band with d xz orbital character and vanishes when approaching the Γ - X direction, correlated with a slight decrease of the superconducting gap. Most importantly, this kink structure disappears when the superconducting gap closes, indicating that the corresponding bosonic mode (~ 9 ± 1 meV) is closely related to superconductivity. However, the origin of this mode remains unidentified, since it cannot be related to phonons or the spin resonance mode (~15 meV) observed by inelastic neutron scattering. The behavior of this mode is rather unique and challenges our present understanding of the superconducting paring mechanism of the bilayer FeAs-based superconductors.
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