Disorder-Sensitive Superconductivity and Bonding Network in the Iron-Silicide Superconductor Lu₂Fe₃Si₅

Abstract:

We performed experimentally the electron-density mapping on the crystal structure of the iron-based superconductor Lu2Fe3Si5 which revealed the Fe-Si covalent-bonding network with the fully ionized Lu-sites. And, for Lu2Fe3Si5, we investigated the effect of Fe- and Si-site substitutions on the superconductivity. The Fe-site-substitution study revealed that, in addition to the disorder-sensitive superconductivity, the additionally-provided 3d electrons or holes tend to be itinerant rather than localized. Taking into account that the localized magnetic moments introduced on the Lu-sites are inactive as magnetic pair breakers, the present results suggest that, in Lu2Fe3Si5, the Fe-Si bonding network should be the playground for the exotic superconductivity which is characterized by the sign-reversed superconducting gap function.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 170)
• Pages: 118-121
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.170.118
• Online since: April 2011
• Authors: H. Okuyama, K. Takase, Yoshiki Takano, Tadataka Watanabe, Fumiko Yoshida, Chikako Moriyoshi, Yoshihiro Kuroiwa
• Keywords: Bonding Nature, Iron-Based Compound, Substitution Effect, Superconductivity

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