High-temperature superconductivity in iron-based materials

J Paglione, RL Greene - Nature physics, 2010 - nature.com
The surprising discovery of superconductivity in layered iron-based materials, with transition
temperatures climbing as high as 55 K, has led to thousands of publications on this subject …

Unconventional superconductivity

GR Stewart - Advances in Physics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
'Conventional'superconductivity, as used in this review, refers to electron–phonon-coupled
superconducting electron pairs described by BCS theory. Unconventional superconductivity …

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 …

Evidence for dispersing 1D Majorana channels in an iron-based superconductor

Z Wang, JO Rodriguez, L Jiao, S Howard, M Graham… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The possible realization of Majorana fermions as quasiparticle excitations in condensed-
matter physics has created much excitement. Most studies have focused on Majorana bound …

The electron-pairing mechanism of iron-based superconductors

F Wang, DH Lee - Science, 2011 - science.org
The past three years have witnessed the discovery of a series of novel high-temperature
superconductors. Trailing behind the cuprates, these iron-based compounds are the second …

Spectroscopic scanning tunneling microscopy insights into Fe-based superconductors

JE Hoffman - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
In the first three years since the discovery of Fe-based high T c superconductors, scanning
tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy have shed light on three important questions …

Materials and novel superconductivity in iron pnictide superconductors

HH Wen, S Li - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2011 - annualreviews.org
Since the first report on superconductivity at 26 K in F-doped LaOFeAs at the end of
February 2008, the iron pnictide superconductor family has been quickly expanded to six …

Anisotropic energy gaps of iron-based superconductivity from intraband quasiparticle interference in LiFeAs

MP Allan, AW Rost, AP Mackenzie, Y Xie, JC Davis… - Science, 2012 - science.org
If strong electron-electron interactions between neighboring Fe atoms mediate the Cooper
pairing in iron-pnictide superconductors, then specific and distinct anisotropic …

Isotropic superconducting gaps with enhanced pairing on electron Fermi surfaces in FeTeSe

H Miao, P Richard, Y Tanaka, K Nakayama, T Qian… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
We used angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to reveal directly the momentum
distribution of the superconducting gap in FeTe 1− x Se x, which has the simplest structure of …

Superconducting properties of sulfur-doped iron selenide

M Abdel-Hafiez, YY Zhang, ZY Cao, CG Duan… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
The recent discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in single-layer iron selenide has
generated significant experimental interest for optimizing the superconducting properties of …