Origin of Tc Enhancement Induced by Doping Yttrium and Hydrogen into LaFeAsO-based Superconductors: 57Fe, 75As, 139La, and 1H-NMR Studies

TL;DR

This study uses NMR techniques to investigate how yttrium and hydrogen doping enhance superconductivity in LaFeAsO-based materials, revealing that structural and electronic optimizations increase the critical temperature without changing doping levels.

Contribution

It provides detailed NMR evidence showing that Y and H doping improve superconducting properties by optimizing Fermi surface topology and structural parameters.

Findings

Y and H doping increase T_c and superconducting gap sizes.

Superconductivity follows a fully gapped s_-wave model.

Optimization of structure and doping enhances T_c without changing doping levels.

Abstract

We report our extensive 57Fe-, 75As-, 139La-, and 1H-NMR studies of La_{0.8}Y_{0.2}FeAsO_{1-y} (La_{0.8}Y_{0.2}1111) and LaFeAsO_{1-y}H_{x}(La1111H), where doping yttrium (Y) and hydrogen (H) into optimally doped LaFeAsO_{1-y} (La1111(OPT)) increases T_c=28 K to 34 and 32 K, respectively. In the superconducting (SC) state, the measurements of nuclear-spin lattice-relaxation rate 1/T_1 have revealed in terms of a multiple fully gapped s_\pm-wave model that the SC gap and T_c in La_{0.8}Y_{0.2}1111 become larger than those in La1111(OPT) without any change in doping level. In La1111H, the SC gap and T_c also increase slightly even though a decrease in carrier density and some disorders are significantly introduced. As a consequence, we suggest that the optimization of both the structural parameters and the carrier doping level to fill up the bands is crucial for increasing T_c among these La1111-based compounds through the optimization of the Fermi surface topology.