Chirality-Resolved Spectroscopy of Caroli-de Gennes-Matricon States in Multiband FeTe1−xSex Superconductors
Abstract
We employ terahertz Faraday magneto-optical spectroscopy to probe the relaxation dynamics of quantized helical Caroli-de Gennes-Matricon (CdGM) states in epitaxial FeTe1−xSex thin films, nodeless multiband superconductors with short coherence lengths in the moderately clean limit. By exploiting polarization-selective optical transitions, we directly resolve the helicity and band origin of vortex-core quasiparticles. We observe long-lived CdGM resonances with opposite circular polarizations for electron- and hole-like bands. This enables independent, band-resolved determination of quasiparticle lifetimes, vortex masses, coherence lengths, and upper critical fields, and reveals their systematic evolution with isovalent substitution. The results establish terahertz magneto-optics as a direct probe of helical vortex-core excitations and provide dynamical evidence for multiband CdGM states in iron-based superconductors.
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BibTeX
@misc{room2026chiralityresolved,
title = {{Chirality-Resolved Spectroscopy of Caroli-de Gennes-Matricon States in Multiband FeTe$_1-x$Se$_x$ Superconductors}},
author = {T. Rõõm and A. Glezer Moshe and R. Nagarajan and U. Nagel and Hee Taek Yi and Seongshik Oh and G. Blumberg},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2606.03637},
eprint = {2606.03637},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03637},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Chirality-Resolved Spectroscopy of Caroli-de Gennes-Matricon States in Multiband FeTe_1−xSe_x Superconductors
AU - T. Rõõm
AU - A. Glezer Moshe
AU - R. Nagarajan
AU - U. Nagel
AU - Hee Taek Yi
AU - Seongshik Oh
AU - G. Blumberg
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/25
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2606.03637
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03637
AB - We employ terahertz Faraday magneto-optical spectroscopy to probe the relaxation dynamics of quantized helical Caroli-de Gennes-Matricon (CdGM) states in epitaxial FeTe_1−xSe_x thin films, nodeless multiband superconductors with short coherence lengths in the moderately clean limit. By exploiting polarization-selective optical transitions, we directly resolve the helicity and band origin of vortex-core quasiparticles. We observe long-lived CdGM resonances with opposite circular polarizations for electron- and hole-like bands. This enables independent, band-resolved determination of quasiparticle lifetimes, vortex masses, coherence lengths, and upper critical fields, and reveals their systematic evolution with isovalent substitution. The results establish terahertz magneto-optics as a direct probe of helical vortex-core excitations and provide dynamical evidence for multiband CdGM states in iron-based superconductors.
ER -