Ultrafast Quasiparticle Dynamics and Electron-Phonon Coupling in (Li <sub>0.84</sub> Fe <sub>0.16</sub> )OHFe <sub>0.98</sub> Se
Qiong 穹 Wu 吴, Huaxue 花雪 Zhou 周, Yanling 艳玲 Wu 吴, Lili 立立 Hu 胡, Shunli 顺利 Ni 倪, Yichao 义超 Tian 田, Fei 飞 Sun 孙, Fang 放 Zhou 周, Xiaoli 晓莉 Dong 董, Zhongxian 忠贤 Zhao 赵, Jimin 继民 Zhao 赵
Abstract
Distinctive superconducting behaviors between bulk and monolayer FeSe make it challenging to obtain a unified picture of all FeSe-based superconductors. We investigate the ultrafast quasiparticle (QP) dynamics of an intercalated superconductor (Li 1 – x Fe x )OHFe 1 – y Se, which is a bulk crystal but shares a similar electronic structure with single-layer FeSe on SrTiO 3 . We obtain the electron-phonon coupling (EPC) constant λ A 1g (0.22 ± 0.04), which well bridges that of bulk FeSe crystal and single-layer FeSe on SrTiO 3 . Significantly, we find that such a positive correlation between λ A 1g and superconducting T c holds among all known FeSe-based superconductors, even in line with reported FeAs-based superconductors. Our observation indicates possible universal role of EPC in the superconductivity of all known categories of iron-based superconductors, which is a critical step towards achieving a unified superconducting mechanism for all iron-based superconductors.