Particle-Hole Transformation in Strongly-Doped Iron-Based Superconductors

TL;DR

This paper uncovers an exact particle-hole transformation in a model for heavily electron-doped FeSe, explaining experimental observations and predicting a high-Tc hole-doped superconductor with distinct Fermi surfaces.

Contribution

It introduces a novel particle-hole transformation in a local-moment model for FeSe, linking magnetic order, Fermi surfaces, and superconductivity in heavily-doped iron-based superconductors.

Findings

Accounts for electron-pocket Fermi surfaces in electron-doped FeSe

Predicts a high-Tc hole-doped superconductor with hole pockets

Links magnetic order to observed resonances

Abstract

An exact particle-hole transformation is discovered in a local-moment model for a single layer of heavily electron-doped FeSe. The model harbors hidden magnetic order between the iron d_xz and d_yz orbitals at the wavenumber (pi,pi). It potentially is tied to the magnetic resonances about the very same Neel ordering vector that have been recently discovered in intercalated FeSe. Upon electron doping, the local-moment model successfully accounts for the electron-pocket Fermi surfaces observed experimentally at the corner of the two-iron Brillouin zone in electron-doped FeSe, as well as for isotropic Cooper pairs. Application of the particle-hole transformation predicts a surface-layer iron-based superconductor at strong hole doping that exhibits high T_c, and that shows hole-type Fermi-surface pockets at the center of the two-iron Brillouin zone.