On the remarkable superconductivity of FeSe and its close cousins

A Kreisel, PJ Hirschfeld, BM Andersen - Symmetry, 2020 - mdpi.com
Emergent electronic phenomena in iron-based superconductors have been at the forefront
of condensed matter physics for more than a decade. Much has been learned about the …

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 …

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 …

Evidence for a Lifshitz transition in electron-doped iron arsenic superconductors at the onset of superconductivity

C Liu, T Kondo, RM Fernandes, AD Palczewski… - Nature Physics, 2010 - nature.com
The iron arsenic high-temperature superconductors, exhibit particularly rich phase
diagrams. In the AE (Fe1− x T x) 2As2 family (known as '122', with AE being Ca, Sr or Ba and …

Competing order and nature of the pairing state in the iron pnictides

RM Fernandes, J Schmalian - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2010 - APS
We show that the competition between magnetism and superconductivity can be used to
determine the pairing state in the iron arsenides. To this end we demonstrate that the …

Orbital order and spontaneous orthorhombicity in iron pnictides

CC Chen, J Maciejko, AP Sorini, B Moritz… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
A growing list of experiments show orthorhombic electronic anisotropy in the iron pnictides,
in some cases at temperatures well above the spin-density-wave transition. These …

Manifestations of nematic degrees of freedom in the magnetic, elastic, and superconducting properties of the iron pnictides

RM Fernandes, J Schmalian - Superconductor Science and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate how emergent nematic order and nematic fluctuations affect several
macroscopic properties of both the normal and superconducting states of the iron pnictides …

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 …

Nematicity as a probe of superconducting pairing in iron-based superconductors

RM Fernandes, AJ Millis - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
In several families of iron-based superconducting materials, ad-wave pairing instability may
compete with the leading s-wave instability. Here, we show that when both states have …