Three-Dimensional Electronic Structure of Superconducting Iron Pnictides Observed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

We have performed an angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) study of the undoped and electron-doped iron pnictides BaFe 2- x Co x As 2 (Ba122) ( x = 0, 0.14) and studied the Fermi surfaces (FSs) and band dispersions near the Fermi level. The FS sheets we observed are consistent with the s...

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Main Author: Malaeb, Walid (author)
Other Authors: Yoshida, Teppei (author), Fujimori, Atsushi (author), Kubota, Masato (author), Ono, Kanta (author), Kihou, Kunihiro (author), Shirage, Parasharam M. (author), Kito, Hijiri (author)
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Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/16649
https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.78.123706
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
https://journals.jps.jp/doi/abs/10.1143/JPSJ.78.123706
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Summary:We have performed an angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) study of the undoped and electron-doped iron pnictides BaFe 2- x Co x As 2 (Ba122) ( x = 0, 0.14) and studied the Fermi surfaces (FSs) and band dispersions near the Fermi level. The FS sheets we observed are consistent with the shrinkage of the hole-like pockets around the Brillouin Zone (BZ) center and the expansion of the electron pockets around the BZ corner in the electron-doped compound as compared to the undoped parent compound. Band dispersions and FSs around the BZ center strongly depend on the photon energy, indicating a three-dimensional (3D) electronic structure. This observation suggests that antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in the pnictides have to be described in terms of an orbital-dependent 3D electronic structure, where FS nesting is not necessarily strong.