Pairing mechanism in Fe-based superconductors

A Chubukov - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2012 - annualreviews.org
I review recent works on the symmetry and the structure of the superconducting gap in Fe-
based superconductors (FeSCs) and on the underlying pairing mechanism in these …

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 …

Preemptive nematic order, pseudogap, and orbital order in the iron pnictides

RM Fernandes, AV Chubukov, J Knolle, I Eremin… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
Starting from a microscopic itinerant model, we derive and analyze the effective low-energy
model for collective magnetic excitations in the iron pnictides. We show that the stripe …

Magnetism, superconductivity, and spontaneous orbital order in iron-based superconductors: Which comes first and why?

AV Chubukov, M Khodas, RM Fernandes - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
Magnetism and nematic order are the two nonsuperconducting orders observed in iron-
based superconductors. To elucidate the interplay between them and ultimately unveil the …

In-plane electronic anisotropy of underdoped '122'Fe-arsenide superconductors revealed by measurements of detwinned single crystals

IR Fisher, L Degiorgi, ZX Shen - Reports on progress in Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The parent phases of the Fe-arsenide superconductors harbor an antiferromagnetic ground
state. Significantly, the Néel transition is either preceded or accompanied by a structural …

Phase diagram of BaKFeAs

S Avci, O Chmaissem, DY Chung, S Rosenkranz… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
We report the results of a systematic investigation of the phase diagram of the iron-based
superconductor Ba 1− x K x Fe 2 As 2 from x= 0 to x= 1.0 using high-resolution neutron and …

Three-band superconductivity and the order parameter that breaks time-reversal symmetry

V Stanev, Z Tešanović - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2010 - APS
We consider a model of multiband superconductivity, inspired by iron pnictides, in which
three bands are connected via repulsive pair-scattering terms. Generically, three distinct …

Iron-based superconductors, seven years later

A Chubukov, PJ Hirschfeld - Physics today, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Discovery of the new materials raised researchers' hopes of solving the riddle of high-
temperature superconductivity. But the unexpectedly diverse systems turned out to possess …

state with broken time-reversal symmetry in Fe-based superconductors

S Maiti, AV Chubukov - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2013 - APS
We analyze the evolution of the superconducting gap structure in strongly hole-doped Ba 1−
x K x Fe 2 As 2 between x= 1 and x∼ 0.4 (optimal do**). In the latter case, the pairing …

Space group symmetry, spin-orbit coupling, and the low-energy effective Hamiltonian for iron-based superconductors

V Cvetkovic, O Vafek - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2013 - APS
We construct the symmetry adapted low-energy effective Hamiltonian for the electronic
states in the vicinity of the Fermi level in iron-based superconductors. We use Luttinger's …