Tuesday, September 18, 2012

1209.3551 (Sunil Kumar et al.)

Ultrafast quasiparticle relaxation dynamics in superconducting iron
pnictide Ca(Fe0.944Co0.056)2As2
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Sunil Kumar, L. Harnagea, S. Wurmehl, B. Buchner, A. K. Sood
Nonequilibrium quasiparticle relaxation dynamics is reported in superconducting Ca(Fe0.944Co0.056)2As2 single crystal using femtosecond time-resolved pump-probe spectroscopy. The carrier dynamics reflects a three-channel decay of laser deposited energy with characteristic time scales varying from few hundreds of femtoseconds to order of few nanoseconds where the amplitudes and time-constants of the individual electronic relaxation components show significant changes in the vicinity of the spin density wave (T_SDW ~ 85 K) and superconducting (T_SC ~ 20 K) phase transition temperatures. The quasiparticles dynamics in the superconducting state reveals a charge gap with reduced gap value of 2$\Delta$_0/k_BT_SC ~ 1.8. We have determined the electron-phonon coupling constant $\lemda$ to be ~ 0.14 from the temperature dependent relaxation time in the normal state, a value close to those reported for other types of pnictides. From the peculiar temperature-dependence of the carrier dynamics in the intermediate temperature region between the superconducting and spin density wave phase transitions, we infer a temperature scale where the charge gap associated with the spin ordered phase is maximum and closes on either side while approaching the two phase transition temperatures.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3551

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