2024/06/22 by H. Cercellier, Cercellier, H., K. Olson +11
Materials Science · #Iron-based superconductors research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2406.15908
The influence of a rotating magnetic field (in the ab-plane) on the density of states has been investigated in the superconducting state of the nematic FeSe superconductor using high sensitivity specific heat measurements. As expected for (quasi-)nodal superconductors, oscillations in the specific heat (C) associated to the Doppler energy shift of Cooper pairs with momenta close to the gap minima are observed. In the Tc = 9~K crystal, C(ϕ) displays a twofold symmetry at low temperature and low magnetic field confirming the nematic character of FeSe from thermodynamical measurements. As expected, a π/2 phase shift is observed for increasing temperatures (at H=1~T) but the gap structure abruptly changes above ∼ 1~K in this sample. At low temperature, the maxima observed for H||a-axis at low H split into lobes at ± 45^∘ when the magnetic field is increased indicating an anomalous field dependence of the gaps.