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 …

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 …

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 …

Using gap symmetry and structure to reveal the pairing mechanism in Fe-based superconductors

PJ Hirschfeld - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2016 - Elsevier
I review theoretical ideas and implications of experiments for the gap structure and symmetry
of the Fe-based superconductors. Unlike any other class of unconventional …

Functional renormalization group for multi-orbital Fermi surface instabilities

C Platt, W Hanke, R Thomale - Advances in Physics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Technological progress in material synthesis, as well as artificial realization of condensed
matter scenarios via ultra-cold atomic gases in optical lattices or epitaxial growth of thin …

Anisotropic energy gaps of iron-based superconductivity from intraband quasiparticle interference in LiFeAs

MP Allan, AW Rost, AP Mackenzie, Y Xie, JC Davis… - Science, 2012 - science.org
If strong electron-electron interactions between neighboring Fe atoms mediate the Cooper
pairing in iron-pnictide superconductors, then specific and distinct anisotropic …

Crossover from weak to strong pairing in unconventional superconductors

DS Inosov, JT Park, A Charnukha, Y Li, AV Boris… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
Superconductors are classified by their pairing mechanism and the coupling strength,
measured as the ratio of the energy gap, 2 Δ, to the critical temperature, T c. We present an …

Strong spin fluctuations in observed by neutron spectroscopy

MC Rahn, RA Ewings, SJ Sedlmaier, SJ Clarke… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We have performed powder inelastic neutron scattering measurements on the
unconventional superconductor β-FeSe (T c≃ 8 K). The spectra reveal highly dispersive …

One-sign order parameter in iron based superconductor

SV Borisenko, VB Zabolotnyy, AA Kordyuk… - Symmetry, 2012 - mdpi.com
The onset of superconductivity at the transition temperature is marked by the onset of order,
which is characterized by an energy gap. Most models of the iron-based superconductors …

[HTML][HTML] Spin fluctuations in iron pnictides and chalcogenides: From antiferromagnetism to superconductivity

DS Inosov - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2016 - Elsevier
The present article reviews recent experimental investigations of spin dynamics in iron-
based superconductors and their parent compounds by means of inelastic neutron …