What drives nematic order in iron-based superconductors?

RM Fernandes, AV Chubukov, J Schmalian - Nature physics, 2014 - nature.com
Although the existence of nematic order in iron-based superconductors is now a well-
established experimental fact, its origin remains controversial. Nematic order breaks 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 …

Nematicity, magnetism and superconductivity in FeSe

AE Böhmer, A Kreisel - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Iron-based superconductors are well known for their complex interplay between structure,
magnetism and superconductivity. FeSe offers a particularly fascinating example. This …

Preemptive nematic order, pseudogap, and orbital order in the iron pnictides

RM Fernandes, AV Chubukov, J Knolle, I Eremin… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
Starting from a microscopic itinerant model, we derive and analyze the effective low-energy
model for collective magnetic excitations in the iron pnictides. We show that the stripe …

Lack of coupling between superconductivity and orthorhombic distortion in stoichiometric single-crystalline FeSe

AE Böhmer, F Hardy, F Eilers, D Ernst, P Adelmann… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
The coupling between superconductivity and orthorhombic distortion is studied in vapor-
grown FeSe single crystals using high-resolution thermal-expansion measurements. In …

In-plane electronic anisotropy of underdoped '122'Fe-arsenide superconductors revealed by measurements of detwinned single crystals

IR Fisher, L Degiorgi, ZX Shen - … on progress in …, 2011 - pubishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org
The parent phases of the Fe-arsenide superconductors harbor an antiferromagnetic ground
state. Significantly, the Néel transition is either preceded or accompanied by a structural …

Nematic spin correlations in the tetragonal state of uniaxial-strained BaFe2−xNixAs2

X Lu, JT Park, R Zhang, H Luo, AH Nevidomskyy, Q Si… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Understanding the microscopic origins of electronic phases in high-transition temperature
(high-T c) superconductors is important for elucidating the mechanism of superconductivity …

Manifestations of nematic degrees of freedom in the magnetic, elastic, and superconducting properties of the iron pnictides

RM Fernandes, J Schmalian - Superconductor Science and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate how emergent nematic order and nematic fluctuations affect several
macroscopic properties of both the normal and superconducting states of the iron pnictides …

Strong cooperative coupling of pressure-induced magnetic order and nematicity in FeSe

K Kothapalli, AE Böhmer, WT Jayasekara… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
A hallmark of the iron-based superconductors is the strong coupling between magnetic,
structural and electronic degrees of freedom. However, a universal picture of the normal …

Evidence for unidirectional nematic bond ordering in FeSe

MD Watson, TK Kim, LC Rhodes, M Eschrig, M Hoesch… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
The presence of dxz-dyz orbital ordering is often considered a hallmark of the nematic
phase of Fe-based superconductors, including FeSe, but the details of the order parameter …