Pseudogap and Superconductivity in Iron-Based Layered Superconductor studied by Fluctuation-Exchange Approximation

TL;DR

This study explores the relationship between magnetic fluctuations and superconductivity in iron-based superconductors using the fluctuation-exchange approximation, revealing pseudogap behavior and proposing a sign-changed s-wave pairing symmetry.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of pseudogap phenomena and pairing symmetry in iron-based superconductors within a five-band Hubbard model framework.

Findings

Pseudogap behavior appears in electron-doped regions but not in hole-doped regions.

The most probable pairing symmetry is a sign-changed s-wave spin-singlet state.

Correlation between spin and spin-quadrupole interactions may be crucial for pairing mechanism.

Abstract

We investigate interplay between magnetic fluctuations and superconductivity in the effective five-band Hubbard model for iron-oxypnictide superconductors on the basis of the fluctuation-exchange approximation. As for the normal-state properties, we find the pseudogap behavior in the NMR relaxation rate and the spectral weight in the electron-doped region, while we cannot find such behavior in the hole-doped region. The pseudogap behavior originates from the band structure effect, that is, existence of high density of states just below the Fermi level. Solving the superconducting Eliashberg equation, we find that the most probable candidate for the pairing symmetry is the sign-changed s-wave spin-singlet state. For small Hund's coupling J, the eigenvalue is not so sensitive to carrier doping, and seems to be irrelevant with antiferromagnetic (AF) spin fluctuation. We suggest that correlation between spin and spin-quadrupole is important as the pairing mechanism as well as the AF fluctuation.