Possible mixed coupling mechanism in FeTe(1-x)Se(x) within a multiband Eliashberg approach

J Phys Condens Matter. 2015 Nov 4;27(43):435701. doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/27/43/435701. Epub 2015 Oct 7.

Abstract

We show that the phenomenology of the iron chalcogenide superconductor FeTe(1-x)Se(x) can be explained within an effective three-band s±-wave Eliashberg model. In particular, various experimental data reported in literature-the critical temperature, the energy gaps, the upper critical field, the superfluid density-can be reproduced by this model in a moderate strong-coupling regime provided that both an intraband phononic term and an interband antiferromagnetic spin-fluctuations term are included in the coupling matrix. The intraband coupling is unusual in Fe-based compounds and is required to explain the somehow anomalous association between gap amplitudes and Fermi surfaces, already evidenced by ARPES.