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 …

Interface-induced superconductivity and strain-dependent spin density waves in FeSe/SrTiO3 thin films

S Tan, Y Zhang, M Xia, Z Ye, F Chen, X Xie, R Peng… - Nature materials, 2013 - nature.com
The record superconducting transition temperature (T c) for the iron-based high-temperature
superconductors (Fe-HTS) has long been 56 K. Recently, in single-layer FeSe films grown …

Direct observation of high-temperature superconductivity in one-unit-cell FeSe films

WH Zhang, Y Sun, JS Zhang, FS Li… - Chinese Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We prepared one-unit-cell (1-UC) thick FeSe films on insulating SrTiO 3 substrates with non-
superconducting FeTe protection layers by molecular beam epitaxy for ex situ studies. By …

Tuning the band structure and superconductivity in single-layer FeSe by interface engineering

R Peng, HC Xu, SY Tan, HY Cao, M Xia… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The interface between transition metal compounds provides a rich playground for emergent
phenomena. Recently, significantly enhanced superconductivity has been reported for …

Orbital selectivity in electron correlations and superconducting pairing of iron-based superconductors

R Yu, H Hu, EM Nica, JX Zhu, Q Si - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Electron correlations play a central role in iron-based superconductors. In these systems,
multiple Fe 3 d-orbitals are active in the low-energy physics, and they are not all degenerate …

Superconducting gap anisotropy in monolayer FeSe thin film

Y Zhang, JJ Lee, RG Moore, W Li, M Yi, M Hashimoto… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Superconductivity originates from pairing of electrons near the Fermi energy. The Fermi
surface topology and pairing symmetry are thus two pivotal characteristics of a …

High temperature superconducting FeSe films on SrTiO3 substrates

Y Sun, W Zhang, Y Xing, F Li, Y Zhao, Z Xia, L Wang… - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Interface enhanced superconductivity at two dimensional limit has become one of most
intriguing research directions in condensed matter physics. Here, we report the …

Topological phases in the single-layer FeSe

N Hao, J Hu - Physical Review X, 2014 - APS
A distinct electronic structure was observed in the single-layer FeSe which shows
surprisingly high-temperature superconductivity over 65 K. Here, we demonstrate that the …

Antiferromagnetic FeSe monolayer on SrTiO3: The charge doping and electric field effects

F Zheng, Z Wang, W Kang, P Zhang - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
By growing monolayer FeSe on SrTiO3 (001) surface, researchers obtain the highest
superconducting transition-temperature for iron-based superconductor. Here, we study the …

Iron-based superconductors as odd-parity superconductors

J Hu - Physical Review X, 2013 - APS
Parity is a fundamental quantum number used to classify a state of matter. Materials rarely
possess ground states with odd parity. We show that the superconducting state in iron …