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 …

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 …

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 …

Electronic and magnetic phase diagram of β-Fe1.01Se with superconductivity at 36.7 K under pressure

S Medvedev, TM McQueen, IA Troyan, T Palasyuk… - Nature materials, 2009 - nature.com
The discovery of new high-temperature superconductors based on FeAs has led to a new
'gold rush'in high-TC superconductivity. All of the new superconductors share the same …

Muon spin spectroscopy

AD Hillier, SJ Blundell, I McKenzie, I Umegaki… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Muons are particles with a spin of ½ that can be implanted into a wide range of condensed
matter materials to act as a local probe of the surrounding atomic environment …

Structural and magnetic phase diagram of CeFeAsO1− xFx and its relation to high-temperature superconductivity

J Zhao, Q Huang, C De La Cruz, S Li, JW Lynn… - Nature materials, 2008 - nature.com
Abstract Recently, high-transition-temperature (high-T c) superconductivity was discovered
in the iron pnictide RFeAsO1− x F x (R, rare-earth metal) family of materials. We use neutron …

Tetragonal-to-Orthorhombic Structural Phase Transition at 90 K in the Superconductor

TM McQueen, AJ Williams, PW Stephens, J Tao… - Physical Review Letters, 2009 - APS
In this Letter we show that superconducting Fe 1.01 Se undergoes a structural transition at
90 K from a tetragonal to an orthorhombic phase but that nonsuperconducting Fe 1.03 Se …

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 …

Exploration of new superconductors and functional materials, and fabrication of superconducting tapes and wires of iron pnictides

H Hosono, K Tanabe… - … and Technology of …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
This review shows the highlights of a 4-year-long research project supported by the
Japanese Government to explore new superconducting materials and relevant functional …

The electronic phase diagram of the LaO1−xFxFeAs superconductor

H Luetkens, HH Klauss, M Kraken, FJ Litterst… - Nature materials, 2009 - nature.com
The competition of magnetic order and superconductivity is a key element in the physics of
all unconventional superconductors, for example in high-transition-temperature cuprates …