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 …

Functional renormalization group for multi-orbital Fermi surface instabilities

C Platt, W Hanke, R Thomale - Advances in Physics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Technological progress in material synthesis, as well as artificial realization of condensed
matter scenarios via ultra-cold atomic gases in optical lattices or epitaxial growth of thin …

Direct observation of spin–orbit coupling in iron-based superconductors

SV Borisenko, DV Evtushinsky, ZH Liu, I Morozov… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling is a fundamental interaction in solids that can induce a broad range of
unusual physical properties, from topologically non-trivial insulating states to unconventional …

Preformed Cooper pairs in layered FeSe-based superconductors

BL Kang, MZ Shi, SJ Li, HH Wang, Q Zhang, D Zhao… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Superconductivity arises from two distinct quantum phenomena: electron pairing and long-
range phase coherence. In conventional superconductors, the two quantum phenomena …

Emergent Kondo Lattice Behavior in Iron-Based Superconductors (, Rb, Cs)

YP Wu, D Zhao, AF Wang, NZ Wang, ZJ Xiang… - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
Here, we experimentally study the origin of d-electron heavy fermion (HF) behavior in iron-
based superconductors (FeSCs) A Fe 2 As 2 (A= K, Rb, Cs). Nuclear magnetic resonance …

Superconducting gap in LiFeAs from three-dimensional spin-fluctuation pairing calculations

Y Wang, A Kreisel, VB Zabolotnyy, SV Borisenko… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
The lack of nesting of the electron and hole Fermi-surface sheets in the Fe-based
superconductor LiFeAs, with a critical temperature of 18 K, has led to questions as to …

Emergence of Orbital Nematicity in the Tetragonal Phase of BaFe2(As1−xPx)2

T Iye, MH Julien, H Mayaffre, M Horvatić… - journal of the physical …, 2015 - journals.jps.jp
We report on 75As-NMR measurements in single crystalline BaFe2 (As0. 96P0. 04) 2 for
magnetic fields parallel to the orthorhombic [110] o and [100] o directions above the …

Nematic fluctuations in iron arsenides NaFeAs and LiFeAs probed by NMR

M Toyoda, Y Kobayashi, M Itoh - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
As 75 NMR measurements have been made on single crystals to study the nematic state in
the iron arsenides NaFeAs, which undergoes a structural transition from a high-temperature …

Fine structure of the incommensurate antiferromagnetic fluctuations in single-crystalline LiFeAs studied by inelastic neutron scattering

N Qureshi, P Steffens, D Lamago, Y Sidis, O Sobolev… - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We present an inelastic neutron scattering study on single-crystalline LiFeAs devoted to the
characterization of the incommensurate antiferromagnetic fluctuations at Q=(0.5±δ, 0.5∓ δ …

Two distinct superconducting phases in LiFeAs

PK Nag, R Schlegel, D Baumann, HJ Grafe, R Beck… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
A non-trivial temperature evolution of superconductivity including a temperature-induced
phase transition between two superconducting phases or even a time-reversal symmetry …