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 …

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 …

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 …

Common Crystalline and Magnetic Structure of Superconducting () Single Crystals Measured Using Neutron Diffraction

F Ye, S Chi, W Bao, XF Wang, JJ Ying, XH Chen… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
Single-crystal neutron diffraction studies on superconductors A 2 Fe 4 Se 5, where A= Rb,
Cs,(Tl, Rb), and (Tl, K)(T c∼ 30 K), uncover the same Fe vacancy ordered crystal structure …

Electronic Identification of the Parental Phases and Mesoscopic Phase Separation <?format ?>of Superconductors

F Chen, M Xu, QQ Ge, Y Zhang, ZR Ye, LX Yang… - Physical Review X, 2011 - APS
The nature of the parent compound of a high-temperature superconductor (HTS) often plays
a pivotal role in determining its superconductivity. The parent compounds of the cuprate …

slave-spin theory and its application to Mott transition in a multiorbital model for iron pnictides

R Yu, Q Si - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2012 - APS
AU (1) slave-spin representation is introduced for multiorbital Hubbard models. As with the Z
2 form of de'Medici et al.[Phys. Rev. B 72, 205124 (2005) PRBMDO 1098-0121 …

Interplay between magnetism and superconductivity in iron-chalcogenide superconductors: crystal growth and characterizations

J Wen, G Xu, G Gu, JM Tranquada… - Reports on progress in …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review, we present a summary of results on single crystal growth of two types of iron-
chalcogenide superconductors, Fe 1+ y Te 1− x Se x (11), and A x Fe 2− y Se 2 (A= K, Rb …

Magnetic Resonant Mode in the Low-Energy Spin-Excitation <?format ?>Spectrum of Superconducting Single Crystals

JT Park, G Friemel, Y Li, JH Kim, V Tsurkan… - Physical Review Letters, 2011 - APS
We have studied the low-energy spin-excitation spectrum of the single-crystalline Rb 2 Fe 4
Se 5 superconductor (T c= 32 K) by means of inelastic neutron scattering. In the …

Spin waves and magnetic exchange interactions in insulating Rb0.89Fe1.58Se2

M Wang, C Fang, DX Yao, GT Tan, LW Harriger… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
The parent compounds of iron pnictide superconductors are bad metals with a collinear
antiferromagnetic structure and Néel temperatures below 220 K. Although alkaline iron …

Exotic magnetic order in the orbital-selective Mott regime of multiorbital systems

J Rincón, A Moreo, G Alvarez, E Dagotto - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
The orbital-selective Mott phase of multiorbital Hubbard models has been extensively
analyzed before using static and dynamical mean-field approximations. In parallel, the …