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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 116, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.017001
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- ANR grant PNICTIDES
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG-SPP 1458 Hochtemperatursupraleitung in Eisenpniktiden]
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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.
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