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 …

[HTML][HTML] Spin fluctuations in iron pnictides and chalcogenides: From antiferromagnetism to superconductivity

DS Inosov - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2016 - Elsevier
The present article reviews recent experimental investigations of spin dynamics in iron-
based superconductors and their parent compounds by means of inelastic neutron …

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 …

Visualization of electron nematicity and unidirectional antiferroic fluctuations at high temperatures in NaFeAs

EP Rosenthal, EF Andrade, CJ Arguello… - Nature physics, 2014 - nature.com
Superconductivity in the iron pnictides is often closely connected to a nematic state in which
the tetragonal symmetry of the crystal is spontaneously broken. Determining the dominant …

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 …

Symmetry of spin excitation spectra in the tetragonal paramagnetic and superconducting phases of 122-ferropnictides

JT Park, DS Inosov, A Yaresko, S Graser, DL Sun… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
We study the symmetry of spin excitation spectra in 122-ferropnictide superconductors by
comparing the results of first-principles calculations with inelastic neutron-scattering (INS) …

Understanding heterogeneities in quantum materials

W Ko, Z Gai, AA Puretzky, L Liang, T Berlijn… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum materials are usually heterogeneous, with structural defects, impurities, surfaces,
edges, interfaces, and disorder. These heterogeneities are sometimes viewed as liabilities …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence of nematic order and nodal superconducting gap along [110] direction in RbFe2As2

X Liu, R Tao, M Ren, W Chen, Q Yao, T Wolf… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Unconventional superconductivity often intertwines with various forms of order, such as the
nematic order which breaks the rotational symmetry of the lattice. Here we report a scanning …

Microscopically derived Ginzburg-Landau theory for magnetic order in the iron pnictides

PMR Brydon, J Schmiedt, C Timm - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2011 - APS
We examine the competition of the observed stripe spin density wave (SDW) with other
commensurate and incommensurate SDW phases in a two-band model of the pnictides …

Quasiparticle interference in the heavy-fermion superconductor

A Akbari, P Thalmeier, I Eremin - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2011 - APS
We investigate the quasiparticle interference in the heavy fermion superconductor CeCoIn 5
as a direct method to confirm the d-wave gap symmetry. The ambiguity between dxy and dx …