Electric Transport of a Single Crystal Iron Chalcogenide FeSe Superconductor: Evidence of Symmetry Breakdown Nematicity and Additional Ultrafast Dirac cone-Like Carriers

TL;DR

This study reveals that FeSe superconductors exhibit nematic electronic order and ultrafast Dirac-like carriers, distinct from magnetic order, as shown by transport measurements and mobility spectrum analysis.

Contribution

It provides direct evidence of nematic symmetry breaking and ultrafast Dirac carriers in FeSe, advancing understanding of its electronic states beyond magnetic order explanations.

Findings

Presence of nematic order breaking C4 symmetry

Detection of ultrafast Dirac cone-like carriers

Absence of magnetic phase transition in FeSe

Abstract

An SDW antiferromagnetic (SDW-AF) low temperature phase transition is generally observe and the AF spin fluctuations are considered to play an important role for the superconductivity paring mechanism in FeAs superconductors. However, a similar magnetic phase transition is not observed in FeSe superconductors, which has caused considerable discussion. We report on the intrinsic electronic states of FeSe as elucidated by transport measurements under magnetic fields using a high quality single crystal. A mobility spectrum analysis, an ab initio method that does not make assumptions on the transport parameters in a multicarrier system, provides very import and clear evidence that another hidden order, most likely the symmetry broken from the tetragonal C4 symmetry to the C2 symmetry nematicity associated with the selective d-orbital splitting, exists in the case of superconducting FeSe other than the AF magnetic order spin fluctuations. The intrinsic low temperature phase in FeSe is in the almost compensated semimetallic states but is additionally accompanied by Dirac cone like ultrafast electrons $\sim$ 10$^4$cm$^2$(VS)$^{-1}$ as minority carriers.