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 …

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 …

Tunable (, )-Type Antiferromagnetic Order in -Fe(Te,Se) Superconductors

W Bao, Y Qiu, Q Huang, MA Green, P Zajdel… - Physical review …, 2009 - APS
The new α-Fe (Te, Se) superconductors share the common iron building block and
ferminology with the LaFeAsO and BaFe 2 As 2 families of superconductors. In contrast with …

Review of Fe chalcogenides as the simplest Fe-based superconductor

Y Mizuguchi, Y Takano - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2010 - journals.jps.jp
Here we summarize the physical properties of the newly discovered Fe-chalcogenide
superconductors. The Fe-chalcogenide superconductors are of great interest because they …

Role of the orbital degree of freedom in iron-based superconductors

M Yi, Y Zhang, ZX Shen, D Lu - npj Quantum Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Almost a decade has passed since the serendipitous discovery of the iron-based high
temperature superconductors (FeSCs) in 2008. The fact that, as in the copper oxide high …

Similarities between structural distortions under pressure and chemical do** in superconducting BaFe2As2

SAJ Kimber, A Kreyssig, YZ Zhang, HO Jeschke… - Nature materials, 2009 - nature.com
The discovery of a new family of high-TC materials, the iron arsenides (FeAs), has led to a
resurgence of interest in superconductivity. Several important traits of these materials are …

Anisotropic thermodynamic and transport properties of single-crystalline

WR Meier, T Kong, US Kaluarachchi, V Taufour, NH Jo… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Single-crystalline, single-phase CaKFe 4 As 4 has been grown out of a high-temperature,
quaternary melt. Temperature-dependent measurements of x-ray diffraction, anisotropic …

Strong Coupling of the Fe-Spin State and the As-As Hybridization<? format?> in Iron-Pnictide Superconductors from First-Principle Calculations

T Yildirim - Physical Review Letters, 2009 - APS
From first-principles calculations, we unravel surprisingly strong interactions between
arsenic ions in iron pnictides, the strength of which is controlled by the Fe-spin state …

A key role for unusual spin dynamics in ferropnictides

II Mazin, MD Johannes - Nature Physics, 2009 - nature.com
The discovery of high-T c ferropnictides introduced a new family of superconductors, and
has already revealed a complicated and often contradictory picture of the structural and …