Abstract:
Using incoherent multiple Andreev reflection effect spectroscopy of planar break-junctions, we have studied the superconducting gap structure of CaKFe4As4 pnictides (the 1144 family), those turning to the superconducting state in the stoichiometric composition with critical temperature Tc≈36.1 K. We have shown a coexistence of three bulk superconducting order parameters Δi, and directly determined their magnitudes and corresponding characteristic ratios 2Δi(0)/kBTc≈5.6,3.9, and 1.3 at T≪Tc. We compare the gap structure of CaKFe4As4 and sister pnictides of the 1144 and 122 families studied by us earlier.
Citation:
T. E. Kuzmicheva, S. A. Kuzmichev, A. S. Medvedev, “Multiple-gap superconductivity of nonmagnetic stoichiometric CaKFe4As4 pnictide”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 119:10 (2024), 757–763; JETP Letters, 119:10 (2024), 780–786