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TT 70: Superconductivity: Fe-based Superconductors - Theory

TT 70.5: Talk

Thursday, March 23, 2017, 16:15–16:30, HSZ 103

Inelastic STM in LiFeAs — •Patrik Hlobil, Jörg Schmalian, Wulf Wulfhekel, and Jasmin Jandke — KIT

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has been shown to be a powerfulexperimental probe to detect electronic excitations and further allows to deduce fingerprints of bosonic collective modes in superconductors. Here, we demonstrate that the inclusion of inelastic tunnel events is crucial for the interpretation of tunneling spectra of unconventional superconductors and allows to directly probe electronic and bosonic excitations via STM. We apply the formalism to the iron based superconductor LiFeAs. With the inclusion of inelastic contributions, we find strong evidence for a non-conventional pairing mechanism, likely via magnetic excitations.