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 …

A review of two-band superconductivity: materials and effects on the thermodynamic and reversible mixed-state properties

M Zehetmayer - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Two-band superconductivity has become an important topic over the past ten years.
Extensive experimental and theoretical studies started with MgB 2 and are now focused on …

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 …

Superconducting properties of the s±-wave state: Fe-based superconductors

Y Bang, GR Stewart - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Although the pairing mechanism of Fe-based superconductors (FeSCs) has not yet been
settled with consensus with regard to the pairing symmetry and the superconducting (SC) …

Strong correlations, strong coupling, and -wave superconductivity in hole-doped single crystals

F Hardy, AE Böhmer, L de'Medici, M Capone… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We present a comprehensive study of the low-temperature heat capacity and thermal
expansion of single crystals of the hole-doped Ba 1− x K x Fe 2 As 2 series (0< x< 1) and the …

Massless leggett mode in three-band superconductors with time-reversal-symmetry breaking

SZ Lin, X Hu - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
The Leggett mode associated with out-of-phase oscillations of the superconducting phase in
multiband superconductors usually is heavy due to interband coupling, which makes its …

Local Measurement of the Superfluid Density in the Pnictide Superconductor across the Superconducting Dome

L Luan, TM Lippman, CW Hicks, JA Bert… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
We measure the penetration depth λ ab (T) in Ba (Fe 1-x Co x) 2 As 2 using local techniques
that do<? format?> not average over the sample. The superfluid density ρ s (T)≡ 1/λ ab (T) 2 …

Universal lower limit on vortex creep in superconductors

S Eley, M Miura, B Maiorov, L Civale - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
Superconductors are excellent testbeds for studying vortices, topological excitations that
also appear in superfluids, liquid crystals and Bose–Einstein condensates. Vortex motion …

Influence of random point defects introduced by proton irradiation on critical current density and vortex dynamics of Ba(FeCo)As single crystals

N Haberkorn, B Maiorov, IO Usov, M Weigand… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
In this work we analyze the influence of random point defects introduced by 3 MeV proton
irradiation on the critical current density (J c) and vortex dynamics of a Ba (Fe 0.925 Co …

Ground state, collective mode, phase soliton and vortex in multiband superconductors

SZ Lin - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This article reviews theoretical and experimental work on the novel physics in multiband
superconductors. Multiband superconductors are characterized by multiple superconducting …