A common thread: The pairing interaction for unconventional superconductors

DJ Scalapino - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2012 - APS
The structures, the phase diagrams, and the appearance of a neutron resonance signaling
an unconventional superconducting state provide phenomenological evidence relating the …

Superconductivity in iron compounds

GR Stewart - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
Kamihara and coworkers' report of superconductivity at T c= 26 K in fluorine-doped
LaFeAsO inspired a worldwide effort to understand the nature of the superconductivity in this …

Gap symmetry and structure of Fe-based superconductors

PJ Hirschfeld, MM Korshunov… - Reports on progress in …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The recently discovered Fe-pnictide and chalcogenide superconductors display low-
temperature properties suggesting superconducting gap structures which appear to vary …

Maximally localized Wannier functions: Theory and applications

N Marzari, AA Mostofi, JR Yates, I Souza… - Reviews of Modern …, 2012 - APS
The electronic ground state of a periodic system is usually described in terms of extended
Bloch orbitals, but an alternative representation in terms of localized “Wannier functions” …

Pairing mechanism in Fe-based superconductors

A Chubukov - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2012 - annualreviews.org
I review recent works on the symmetry and the structure of the superconducting gap in Fe-
based superconductors (FeSCs) and on the underlying pairing mechanism in these …

Near-degeneracy of several pairing channels in multiorbital models for the Fe pnictides

S Graser, TA Maier, PJ Hirschfeld… - New Journal of …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Weak-coupling approaches to the pairing problem in the iron pnictide superconductors have
predicted a wide variety of superconducting ground states. We argue here that this is due …

Neutron-Diffraction Measurements of Magnetic Order and a Structural Transition <?format ?>in the Parent Compound of FeAs-Based High-Temperature …

Q Huang, Y Qiu, W Bao, MA Green, JW Lynn… - Physical Review Letters, 2008 - APS
The recent discovery of superconductivity in (Ba, K) Fe 2 As 2, which crystallizes in the ThCr
2 Si 2 (122) structure as compared with the LnFeAsO (Ln is lanthanide) systems that …

Wien2wannier: From linearized augmented plane waves to maximally localized Wannier functions

J Kuneš, R Arita, P Wissgott, A Toschi, H Ikeda… - Computer Physics …, 2010 - Elsevier
We present an implementation of an interface between the full-potential linearized
augmented plane wave package Wien2k and the wannier90 code for the construction of …

Magnetism, superconductivity, and pairing symmetry in iron-based superconductors

AV Chubukov, DV Efremov, I Eremin - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2008 - APS
We analyze antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in novel Fe-based superconductors
within the itinerant model of small electron and hole pockets near (0, 0) and (π, π). We argue …

Pnictogen height as a possible switch between high- nodeless and low- nodal pairings in the iron-based superconductors

K Kuroki, H Usui, S Onari, R Arita, H Aoki - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2009 - APS
We study the effect of the lattice structure on the spin-fluctuation-mediated superconductivity
in the iron pnictides adopting the five-band models of several virtual lattice structures of …