Two-band conductivity of a FeSeTe film by reflectance measurements in the terahertz and infrared range

Abstract

We report an infrared spectroscopy study of a 200 nm thick FeSeTe film grown on LaAlO3 with Tc = 13.7 K. We analyze the 20 K normal state absolute reflectance RN measured over a broad infrared range and the reflectance ratio RS/RN, RS being the superconducting state reflectance, measured at 6 K in the terahertz range down to 12 cm−1. We show that the normal state model conductivity is given by two Drude components, one of which much broader and intense than the other. In the superconducting state, we find that a gap Δ = 37 ± 3 cm−1 opens up in the narrow Drude band only, while the broad Drude band results to be ungapped, at least in the explored spectral range. Our results show that only a two-band model can coherently describe both normal and superconducting state data.