Campus Units
Physics and Astronomy, Ames Laboratory
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
2-12-2010
Journal or Book Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume
104
Issue
6
First Page
067002
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.067002
Abstract
The temperature and magnetic field dependence of the in-plane thermal conductivity κ of the iron-arsenide superconductor Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2 was measured down to T≃50 mK and up to H=15 T as a function of Co concentration x in the range 0.048≤x≤0.114. At H=0, a negligible residual linear term in κ/T as T→0 at all x shows that the superconducting gap has no nodes in the ab plane anywhere in the phase diagram. However, while the slow H dependence of κ(H) at T→0 in the underdoped regime is consistent with a superconducting gap that is large everywhere on the Fermi surface, the rapid increase in κ(H) observed in the overdoped regime shows that the gap acquires a deep minimum somewhere on the Fermi surface. Outside the antiferromagnetic-orthorhombic phase, the superconducting gap structure has a strongly k-dependent amplitude.
Copyright Owner
American Physical Society
Copyright Date
2010
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Tanatar, Makariy A.; Reid, J.-Ph.; Shakeripour, H.; Luo, X. G.; Doiron-Leyraud, N.; Ni, Ni; Bud’ko, Sergey L.; Canfield, Paul C.; Prozorov, Ruslan; and Taillefer, Louis, "Doping Dependence of Heat Transport in the Iron-Arsenide Superconductor Ba(Fe1-xCox)(2)As-2: From Isotropic to a Strongly k-Dependent Gap Structure" (2010). Physics and Astronomy Publications. 700.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/physastro_pubs/700
Comments
This article is published as Tanatar, M. A., J-Ph Reid, H. Shakeripour, X. G. Luo, N. Doiron-Leyraud, N. Ni, S. L. Bud’Ko, P. C. Canfield, R. Prozorov, and Louis Taillefer. "Doping Dependence of Heat Transport in the Iron-Arsenide Superconductor Ba (Fe 1− x Co x) 2 As 2: From Isotropic to a Strongly k-Dependent Gap Structure." Physical Review Letters 104, no. 6 (2010): 067002. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.067002. Posted with permission.