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 …

The puzzle of high temperature superconductivity in layered iron pnictides and chalcogenides

DC Johnston - Advances in Physics, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The response of the worldwide scientific community to the discovery in 2008 of
superconductivity at T c= 26 K in the Fe-based compound LaFeAsO1− x F x has been very …

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 …

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 …

Point-node gap structure of the spin-triplet superconductor

T Metz, S Bae, S Ran, IL Liu, YS Eo, WT Fuhrman… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Low-temperature electrical and thermal transport, magnetic penetration depth, and heat
capacity measurements were performed on single crystals of the actinide superconductor …

Functional renormalization group for multi-orbital Fermi surface instabilities

C Platt, W Hanke, R Thomale - Advances in Physics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Technological progress in material synthesis, as well as artificial realization of condensed
matter scenarios via ultra-cold atomic gases in optical lattices or epitaxial growth of thin …

Line nodes in the energy gap of superconducting single crystals as seen via penetration depth and thermal conductivity

K Hashimoto, M Yamashita, S Kasahara, Y Senshu… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
We report magnetic penetration depth and thermal-conductivity data for high-quality single
crystals of BaFe 2 (As 1− x P x) 2 (T c= 30 K) which provide strong evidence that this material …

Evidence for superconducting gap nodes in the zone-centered hole bands of from magnetic penetration-depth measurements

K Hashimoto, A Serafin, S Tonegawa, R Katsumata… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
Among the iron-based pnictide superconductors the material KFe 2 As 2 is unusual in that its
Fermi surface does not consist of quasinested electron and hole pockets. Here we report …

Exotic -Wave Superconducting State of Strongly Hole-Doped

R Thomale, C Platt, W Hanke, J Hu, BA Bernevig - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
We investigate the superconducting phase in the K x Ba 1-x Fe 2 As 2 122 compounds from
moderate to strong hole-doping regimes. Using the functional renormalization group, we …

Sensitivity of the superconducting state and magnetic susceptibility to key aspects of electronic structure in ferropnictides

AF Kemper, TA Maier, S Graser, HP Cheng… - New Journal of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Experiments on the iron–pnictide superconductors appear to show some materials where
the ground state is fully gapped, and others where low-energy excitations dominate …