Conventional superconductivity in SrPd2Ge2

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Contributors

  • T. K. Kim - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • A. N. Yaresko - , Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) (Author)
  • V. B. Zabolotnyy - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • A. A. Kordyuk - , National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Author)
  • D. V. Evtushinsky - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • N. H. Sung - , Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Author)
  • B. K. Cho - , Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Author)
  • T. Samuely - , University of Pavol Jozef Safarik Kosice (Author)
  • P. Szabo - , Centre of low temperature physics (CLTP) (Author)
  • J. G. Rodrigo - , Technical University of Madrid (Author)
  • J. T. Park - , Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) (Author)
  • D. S. Inosov - , Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) (Author)
  • P. Samuely - , Centre of low temperature physics (CLTP) (Author)
  • B. Buechner - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • S. V. Borisenko - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)

Abstract

The electronic structure of SrPd2Ge2 single crystals is studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS), and band structure calculations within the local-density approximation (LDA). The STS measurements show a single s-wave superconducting energy gap Delta(0) = 0.5 meV. The photon-energy dependence of the observed Fermi surface reveals a strongly three-dimensional character of the corresponding electronic bands. By comparing the experimentally measured and calculated Fermi velocities a renormalization factor of 0.95 is obtained, which is much smaller than typical values reported in Fe-based superconductors. We ascribe such an unusually low band renormalization to the different orbital character of the conduction electrons and, using ARPES and STS data, argue that SrPd2Ge2 is likely to be a conventional superconductor, which makes it clearly distinct from isostructural iron pnictide superconductors of the "122" family.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number014520
Number of pages7
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume85
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 25 Jan 2012
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

External IDs

Scopus 84863012400

Keywords

Keywords

  • HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

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