Surface State Bands in Superconducting(PtxIr1-x)Te2

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy is performed to study the bulk and surface electronic structures of non- superconducting IrTe2 and superconducting Pto.oblro.95 Te2. In addition to the bulk electronic bands predicted by the local density approximation calculations, we observe two Dirac cone-like bands at the Brillouin zone center, which are non-dispersive along kz, suggesting that the extra bands are surface state bands. As the experimental results are well consistent with the ab initio calculations of surface states, the parity analysis proves that these surface state bands are topologically trivial and thus exclude （PtxIr1-x）Te2 as a possible topological superconductor candidate.

Coexistence of Polaronic States and Superconductivity in Iron-Pnictide Compound Ba_2Ti_2Fe_2As_4O

The electronic structure of iron-pnictide compound superconductor Ba_2Ti_2Fe_2As_4O, which has metallic intermediate Ti_2O layers, is studied using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. The Ti-related bands show a‘peak-dip-hump＇ line shape with two branches of dispersion associated with the polaronic states at temperatures below around 120 K. This change in the spectra occurs along with the resistivity anomaly that was not clearly understood in a previous study. Moreover, an energy gap induced by the superconducting proximity effect opens in the polaronic bands at temperatures below T_c（~21 K）. Our study provides the spectroscopic evidence that superconductivity coexists with polarons in the same bands near the Fermi level, which provides a suitable platform to study interactions between charge, lattice and spin freedoms in a correlated system.

High-Quality FeTe_(1-x)Se_x Monolayer Films on SrTiO_3(001) Substrates Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

We report the growth process of FeTe1-xSex （0 〈 x 〈 1） monolayer films on SrTi03 （STO） substrates through molecular beam epitaxy and discuss the possible ways to improve the film quality. By exploring the parameters of substrate treatment, growth control and post growth annealing, we successfully obtain a series of FeTe1-xSex monolayer films. In the whole growth process, we find the significance of the temperature control through surface roughness monitored by the reflection high-energy electron diffraction and scanning tunneling microscopy. We obtain the best quality of FeSe monolayer films with the STO substrate treated at T = 900 950℃ before growth, the FeSe deposited at T = 310℃ during growth and annealed at T = 380℃ after growth. For FeTe1-xSex （x-1）, both the growth temperature and annealing temperature decrease to T=260℃. According to the angle- resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements, the superconductivity of the FeTe1-xSex film is robust and insensitive to Se concentration. All the above are instructive for further investigations of the superconductivity in FeTe1-xSex films.

Experimental Investigation of the Electronic Structure of Ca_(0.83)La_(0.17)Fe_(2)As_(2)

We performed a combined angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy study of the electronic structure of electron-doped Ca_(0.83)La_(0.17)Fe_(2)As_(2).A surface reconstruction associated with the dimerization of As atoms is observed directly in the real space,as well as the consequent band folding in the momentum space.Besides this band folding effect,the Fermi surface topology of this material is similar to that reported previously for BaFe_(1.85)Co_(0.15)As_(2),with Γ-centered hole pockets quasi-nested to M-centered electron pockets by the antiferromagnetic wave vector.Although no superconducting gap is observed by ARPES possibly due to low superconducting volume fraction,a gap-like density of states depression of 7.7±2.9 meV is determined by scanning tunneling microscopy.

Observation of Strong-Coupling Pairing with Weakened Fermi-Surface Nesting at Optimal Hole Doping in Ca0.33Na0.67Fe：Asu

We report an angle-resolved photoemission investigation of optimally doped Ca0.33Na0.67Fe2As2. The Fermi surface topology of this compound is similar to that of the well-studied Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2 material, except for larger hole pockets resulting from a higher hole concentration per Fe atoms. We find that the quasi-nesting conditions are weakened in this compound compared to Ba0.6K0.4Fe2 As2. Similar to Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2, we observe nearly isotropie superconducting gaps with Fermi surface-dependent magnitudes for Ca0.33Na0.67 Fe2As2. A small variation in the gap size along the momentum direction perpendicular to the surface is found for one of the Fermi surfaces. Our superconducting gap results on all Fermi surface sheets fit simultaneously very well to a global gap function derived from a strong coupling approach, which contains only 2 global parameters.