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Wang Chengwei, Wang Meixiao, Jiang Juan, Yang Haifeng, Yang Lexian, Shi Wujun, Lai Xiaofang, Mo Sung-Kwan, Barinov Alexei, Yan Binghai, Liu Zhi, Huang Fuqiang, Jia Jinfeng, Liu Zhongkai, Chen Yulin. Electronic structure and spatial inhomogeneity of iron-based superconductor FeS. Chinese Physics B, 2020, 29(4): 047401  
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Electronic structure and spatial inhomogeneity of iron-based superconductor FeS
Wang Chengwei1, 2, 3, Wang Meixiao2, Jiang Juan2, 4, Yang Haifeng2, Yang Lexian5, Shi Wujun2, Lai Xiaofang6, Mo Sung-Kwan4, Barinov Alexei7, Yan Binghai8, Liu Zhi1, 2, Huang Fuqiang6, 9, Jia Jinfeng10, Liu Zhongkai2, ‡, Chen Yulin2, 5, 11, §
State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, CAS-Shanghai Science Research Center, Shanghai 200031, China
University of Chinese Academic of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center for Quantum Matter,Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste ScPA, Trieste, Basovizza 34149, Italy
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
Key Laboratory of Artificial Structures and Quantum Control (Ministry of Education), Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Physics Department, Oxford University, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK

 

† Corresponding author. E-mail: liuzhk@shanghaitech.edu.cn yulin.chen@physics.ox.ac.uk

Project supported by CAS-Shanghai Science Research Center, China (Grant No. CAS-SSRC-YH-2015-01), the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFA0305400), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11674229, 11227902, and 11604207), the EPSRC Platform Grant (Grant No. EP/M020517/1), Hefei Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 2015HSC-UE013), Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, China (Grant No. 14520722100), and the Strategic Priority Research Program (B) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB04040200).

Abstract

Iron-based superconductor family FeX (X = S, Se, Te) has been one of the research foci in physics and material science due to their record-breaking superconducting temperature (FeSe film) and rich physical phenomena. Recently, FeS, the least studied FeX compound (due to the difficulty in synthesizing high quality macroscopic crystals) attracted much attention because of its puzzling superconducting pairing symmetry. In this work, combining scanning tunneling microscopy and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) with sub-micron spatial resolution, we investigate the intrinsic electronic structures of superconducting FeS from individual single crystalline domains. Unlike FeTe or FeSe, FeS remains identical tetragonal structure from room temperature down to 5 K, and the band structures observed can be well reproduced by our ab-initio calculations. Remarkably, mixed with the 1 × 1 tetragonal metallic phase, we also observe the coexistence of reconstructed insulating phase in the crystal, which not only helps explain the unusual properties of FeS, but also demonstrates the importance of using spatially resolved experimental tools in the study of this compound.

PACS: ;74.25.Jb;;71.27.+a;
Keyword:;angle-resolved photoemission with spatially resolution;;scanning tunneling microscopy;;iron-based superconductor;;electronic band structure;
Supporting information

The supporting information includes: 1) details of the synthesis of the FeS crystal, 2) detailed information of STM experiment, 3) detailed information about the μ-ARPES experiment, 4) resolving bands with different orbitals in FeS, and 5) kz dependence of the electronic structure of FeS.

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