High-temperature superconductivity in iron pnictides and chalcogenides

Q Si, R Yu, E Abrahams - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Superconductivity develops in metals upon the formation of a coherent macroscopic
quantum state of electron pairs. Iron pnictides and chalcogenides are materials that have …

On the remarkable superconductivity of FeSe and its close cousins

A Kreisel, PJ Hirschfeld, BM Andersen - Symmetry, 2020 - mdpi.com
Emergent electronic phenomena in iron-based superconductors have been at the forefront
of condensed matter physics for more than a decade. Much has been learned about the …

Iron-based superconductors: Current status of materials and pairing mechanism

H Hosono, K Kuroki - Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications, 2015 - Elsevier
Since the discovery of high T c iron-based superconductors in early 2008, more than 15,000
papers have been published as a result of intensive research. This paper describes the …

Antiferromagnetic order and spin dynamics in iron-based superconductors

P Dai - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
High-transition temperature (high-T c) superconductivity in the iron pnictides or
chalcogenides emerges from the suppression of the static antiferromagnetic order in their …

Colloquium: The unexpected properties of alkali metal iron <?format ?>selenide superconductors

E Dagotto - Reviews of modern physics, 2013 - APS
The iron-based superconductors that contain FeAs layers as the fundamental building block
in the crystal structures have been rationalized in the past using ideas based on the Fermi …

Using gap symmetry and structure to reveal the pairing mechanism in Fe-based superconductors

PJ Hirschfeld - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2016 - Elsevier
I review theoretical ideas and implications of experiments for the gap structure and symmetry
of the Fe-based superconductors. Unlike any other class of unconventional …

Iron-based superconductors: Magnetism, superconductivity, and electronic structure

AA Kordyuk - Low temperature physics, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) reveals the features of the electronic
structure of quasi-two-dimensional crystals which are crucial for spin and charge ordering …

Colloquium: Unconventional fully gapped superconductivity in the heavy-fermion metal

M Smidman, O Stockert, EM Nica, Y Liu, H Yuan… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The heavy-fermion metal CeCu 2 Si 2 was the first discovered unconventional, non-phonon-
mediated superconductor and, for a long time, was believed to exhibit single-band d-wave …

Nematicity as a probe of superconducting pairing in iron-based superconductors

RM Fernandes, AJ Millis - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
In several families of iron-based superconducting materials, ad-wave pairing instability may
compete with the leading s-wave instability. Here, we show that when both states have …

Orbital-selective pairing and superconductivity in iron selenides

EM Nica, R Yu, Q Si - npj Quantum Materials, 2017 - nature.com
An important challenge in condensed matter physics is understanding iron-based
superconductors. Among these systems, the iron selenides hold the record for highest …