Preemptive nematic order, pseudogap, and orbital order in the iron pnictides

RM Fernandes, AV Chubukov, J Knolle, I Eremin… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
Starting from a microscopic itinerant model, we derive and analyze the effective low-energy
model for collective magnetic excitations in the iron pnictides. We show that the stripe …

In-plane electronic anisotropy of underdoped '122'Fe-arsenide superconductors revealed by measurements of detwinned single crystals

IR Fisher, L Degiorgi, ZX Shen - Reports on progress in Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The parent phases of the Fe-arsenide superconductors harbor an antiferromagnetic ground
state. Significantly, the Néel transition is either preceded or accompanied by a structural …

Optical conductivity of iron-based superconductors

A Charnukha - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The new family of unconventional iron-based superconductors discovered in 2006
immediately relieved their copper-based high-temperature predecessors as the most …

Origin of orthorhombic transition, magnetic transition, and shear-modulus softening in iron pnictide superconductors: Analysis based on the orbital fluctuations theory

H Kontani, T Saito, S Onari - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2011 - APS
The main features in iron pnictide superconductors are summarized as (i) the orthorhombic
transition accompanied by a remarkable softening of the shear modulus,(ii) high-T c …

Anisotropic impurity states, quasiparticle scattering and nematic transport in underdoped Ca(Fe1−xCox)2As2

MP Allan, TM Chuang, F Massee, Y Xie, N Ni… - Nature Physics, 2013 - nature.com
Iron-based high-temperature superconductivity develops when the 'parent'antiferromagnetic/
orthorhombic phase is suppressed, typically by introduction of dopant atoms. But their …

Hedgehog spin-vortex crystal stabilized in a hole-doped iron-based superconductor

WR Meier, QP Ding, A Kreyssig, SL Bud'ko… - npj Quantum …, 2018 - nature.com
Magnetism is widely considered to be a key ingredient of unconventional superconductivity.
In contrast to cuprate high-temperature superconductors, antiferromagnetism in most Fe …

Anisotropic in-plane resistivity in the nematic phase of the iron pnictides

RM Fernandes, E Abrahams, J Schmalian - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
We show that the interference between scattering by impurities and by critical spin
fluctuations gives rise to anisotropic transport in the Ising-nematic state of the iron pnictides …

Electronic reconstruction through the structural and magnetic transitions in detwinned NaFeAs

M Yi, DH Lu, RG Moore, K Kihou, CH Lee… - New Journal of …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We use angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to study twinned and detwinned iron
pnictide compound NaFeAs. Distinct signatures of electronic reconstruction are observed to …

Effect of Uniaxial Strain on the Structural and Magnetic Phase Transitions in

C Dhital, Z Yamani, W Tian, J Zeretsky, AS Sefat… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
We report neutron scattering experiments probing the influence of uniaxial strain on both the
magnetic and structural order parameters in the parent iron pnictide compound, BaFe 2 As …

Sign-reversal of the in-plane resistivity anisotropy in hole-doped iron pnictides

EC Blomberg, MA Tanatar, RM Fernandes… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Unconventional superconductivity usually originates from several strongly coupled degrees
of freedom, such as magnetic, charge and elastic. A highly anisotropic electronic phase, not …