Effective Interacting Hamiltonian and Pairing Symmetry of LaOFeAs.pdfVIP

Effective Interacting Hamiltonian and Pairing Symmetry of LaOFeAs Junren Shi∗ Institute of Physics and ICQS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China We establish the general form of effective interacting Hamiltonian for LaOFeAs system based on the symme- try consideration. The peculiar symmetry property of the electron states yields unusual form of electron-electron interaction. Based on the general effective Hamiltonian, we determine all the ten possible pairing states. More physical considerations would further reduce the list of the candidates for the pairing state. 8 0 0 The recent discovery of the new family of iron based high- 2 Tc superconductors [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] has attracted intensive n experimental [6, 7] and theoretical interests. Although at u the current stage little is known for its microscopic origin, J theory has made great advances in understanding the elec- 1 tronic structures [8, 9, 10, 11]. In particular, a number of 1 pairing mechanisms and pairing symmetries have been pro- ] posed [8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18]. In most of these stud- n ies, the microscopic Hamiltonian adopted is deterministic for o the outcome of theory. It is thus desirable to know the general c - form of the interacting Hamiltonian allowed by the symmetry r of the system, upon which the possible pairing states can be p Figure 1: Left: structure of FeAs plane. The dark and light As atoms u systematically analyzed.