Kumar, Pradeep and Muthu, DVS and Prakash, J and Ganguli, AK and Sood, AK (2014) Raman Evidence for Coupling of Superconducting Quasi-Particles with a Phonon and Crystal Field Excitation in Superconductor Ce0.6Y0.4FeAsO0.8F0.2. In: 58th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, DEC 17-21, 2013, Thapar Univ, Patiala, INDIA, pp. 1098-1100.
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We report inelastic light scattering experiments on superconductor Ce0.6Y0.4FeAsO0.8F0.2 from 4K to 300K covering the superconducting transition temperature T-c similar to 48.6K. A strong evidence of the superconductivity induced phonon renormalization for the A(1g) phonon mode near 150cm(-1) associated with the Ce/Y vibrations is observed as reflected in the anomalous red-shift and decrease in the linewidth below T-c. Invoking the coupling of this mode with the superconducting gap, the superconducting gap (2 Delta) at zero temperature is estimated to be similar to 20meV i.e the ratio 2 Delta(0)/k(B)T(c) is similar to 5, suggesting Ce0.6Y0.4FeAsO0.8F0.2 to belong to the class of strong coupling superconductors. In addition, the mode near 430cm(-1) associated with Ce3+ crystal field excitation also shows anomalous increase in its linewidth below T-c suggesting strong coupling between crystal field excitation and the superconducting quasi-particles.
| Item Type: | Conference Proceedings |
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| Series.: | AIP Conference Proceedings |
| Publisher: | AMER INST PHYSICS |
| Additional Information: | Copy right for this article belongs to the AMER INST PHYSICS, 2 HUNTINGTON QUADRANGLE, STE 1NO1, MELVILLE, NY 11747-4501 USA. |
| Keywords: | Quasi-particle excitations; Phonons |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Nov 2014 05:20 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Nov 2014 05:20 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/50185 |
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