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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Magnetism and its microscopic origin in iron-based high-temperature superconductors

P Dai, J Hu, E Dagotto - Nature Physics, 2012 - nature.com
High-temperature superconductivity in the iron-based materials emerges from, or sometimes
coexists with, their metallic or insulating parent compound states. This is surprising, as these …

Electronic origin of high-temperature superconductivity in single-layer FeSe superconductor

D Liu, W Zhang, D Mou, J He, YB Ou, QY Wang… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
The recent discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in iron-based compounds has
attracted much attention. How to further increase the superconducting transition temperature …

Symmetry-breaking orbital anisotropy observed for detwinned Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 above the spin density wave transition

M Yi, D Lu, JH Chu, JG Analytis… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Nematicity, defined as broken rotational symmetry, has recently been observed in competing
phases proximate to the superconducting phase in the cuprate high-temperature …

Quantum phase transitions of metals in two spatial dimensions. II. Spin density wave order

MA Metlitski, S Sachdev - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2010 - APS
We present a field-theoretic renormalization group analysis of Abanov and Chubukov's
model of the spin density wave transition in two dimensional metals. We identify the …

Anomalous Suppression of the Orthorhombic Lattice Distortion in Superconducting Single Crystals

S Nandi, MG Kim, A Kreyssig, RM Fernandes… - Physical Review Letters, 2010 - APS
High-resolution x-ray diffraction measurements reveal an unusually strong response of the
lattice to superconductivity in Ba (Fe 1-x Co x) 2 As 2. The orthorhombic distortion of the …

FeAs-Based Superconductivity: A Case Study of the Effects of Transition Metal Doping on BaFe2As2

PC Canfield, SL Bud'Ko - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2010 - annualreviews.org
The recently discovered FeAs-based superconductors are a new, promising set of materials
for technological and basic research. They offer transition temperatures as high as 55 K as …