Angle-resolved photoemission studies of quantum materials

JA Sobota, Y He, ZX Shen - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
The physics of quantum materials is dictated by many-body interactions and mathematical
concepts such as symmetry and topology that have transformed our understanding of matter …

Iron pnictides and chalcogenides: a new paradigm for superconductivity

RM Fernandes, AI Coldea, H Ding, IR Fisher… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Superconductivity is a remarkably widespread phenomenon that is observed in most metals
cooled to very low temperatures. The ubiquity of such conventional superconductors, and …

Twofold symmetry of c-axis resistivity in topological kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5 with in-plane rotating magnetic field

Y Xiang, Q Li, Y Li, W Xie, H Yang, Z Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In transition metal compounds, due to the interplay of charge, spin, lattice and orbital
degrees of freedom, many intertwined orders exist with close energies. One of the commonly …

Reversible strain-induced magnetic phase transition in a van der Waals magnet

J Cenker, S Sivakumar, K Xie, A Miller… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mechanical deformation of a crystal can have a profound effect on its physical properties.
Notably, even small modifications of bond geometry can completely change the size and …

What drives nematic order in iron-based superconductors?

RM Fernandes, AV Chubukov, J Schmalian - Nature physics, 2014 - nature.com
Although the existence of nematic order in iron-based superconductors is now a well-
established experimental fact, its origin remains controversial. Nematic order breaks the …

Low-temperature activation of methane on the IrO2(110) surface

Z Liang, T Li, M Kim, A Asthagiri, JF Weaver - Science, 2017 - science.org
Methane undergoes highly facile C–H bond cleavage on the stoichiometric IrO2 (110)
surface. From temperature-programmed reaction spectroscopy experiments, we found that …

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 …

Enhanced superconductivity and ferroelectric quantum criticality in plastically deformed strontium titanate

S Hameed, D Pelc, ZW Anderson, A Klein… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
The properties of quantum materials are commonly tuned using experimental variables such
as pressure, magnetic field and doping. Here we explore a different approach using …

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 …

Nematicity and nematic fluctuations in iron-based superconductors

AE Böhmer, JH Chu, S Lederer, M Yi - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
The spontaneous reduction of rotational symmetry in a crystalline solid driven by an
electronic mechanism is referred to as electronic nematicity. This phenomenon—initially …