Unconventional superconductivity

GR Stewart - Advances in Physics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
'Conventional'superconductivity, as used in this review, refers to electron–phonon-coupled
superconducting electron pairs described by BCS theory. Unconventional superconductivity …

Antiferromagnetic order and spin dynamics in iron-based superconductors

P Dai - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
High-transition temperature (high-T c) superconductivity in the iron pnictides or
chalcogenides emerges from the suppression of the static antiferromagnetic order in their …

Critical quadrupole fluctuations and collective modes in iron pnictide superconductors

VK Thorsmølle, M Khodas, ZP Yin, C Zhang, SV Carr… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
The multiband nature of iron pnictides gives rise to a rich temperature-doping phase
diagram of competing orders and a plethora of collective phenomena. At low dopings, the …

[HTML][HTML] The phase diagrams of iron-based superconductors: Theory and experiments

A Martinelli, F Bernardini, S Massidda - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2016 - Elsevier
Phase diagrams play a primary role in the understanding of materials properties. For iron-
based superconductors (Fe-SC), the correct definition of their phase diagrams is crucial …

Nematic Quantum Critical Fluctuations in

Z Liu, Y Gu, W Zhang, D Gong, W Zhang, T Xie, X Lu… - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
We have systematically studied the nematic fluctuations in the electron-doped iron-based
superconductor BaFe 2-x Ni x As 2 by measuring the in-plane resistance change under …

Impact of uniaxial pressure on structural and magnetic phase transitions in electron-doped iron pnictides

X Lu, KF Tseng, T Keller, W Zhang, D Hu, Y Song… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We use neutron resonance spin echo and Larmor diffraction to study the effect of uniaxial
pressure on the tetragonal-to-orthorhombic structural (T s) and antiferromagnetic (AF) phase …

NMR Evidence for Inhomogeneous Nematic Fluctuations in

AP Dioguardi, T Kissikov, CH Lin, KR Shirer… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We present evidence for nuclear spin-lattice relaxation driven by glassy nematic fluctuations
in isovalent P-doped BaFe 2 As 2 single crystals. Both the As 75 and P 31 sites exhibit a …

Hedgehog Spin-Vortex Crystal Antiferromagnetic Quantum Criticality in Revealed by NMR

QP Ding, WR Meier, J Cui, M Xu, AE Böhmer… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Two ordering states, antiferromagnetism and nematicity, have been observed in most iron-
based superconductors (SCs). In contrast to those SCs, the newly discovered SC CaK (Fe 1 …

Local orthorhombic lattice distortions in the paramagnetic tetragonal phase of superconducting NaFe1−xNixAs

W Wang, Y Song, C Cao, KF Tseng, T Keller… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Understanding the interplay between nematicity, magnetism and superconductivity is pivotal
for elucidating the physics of iron-based superconductors. Here we use neutron scattering to …

Imaging Anomalous Nematic Order and Strain in Optimally Doped

E Thewalt, IM Hayes, JP Hinton, A Little, S Patankar… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We present the strain and temperature dependence of an anomalous nematic phase in
optimally doped BaFe 2 (As, P) 2. Polarized ultrafast optical measurements reveal broken …