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 …

Superconductivity in the iron selenide

J Guo, S **, G Wang, S Wang, K Zhu, T Zhou… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
We report the superconductivity at above 30 K in a FeSe-layer compound K 0.8 Fe 2 Se 2
(nominal composition) achieved by metal K intercalating in between FeSe layers. It is …

Kinetic frustration and the nature of the magnetic and paramagnetic states in iron pnictides and iron chalcogenides

ZP Yin, K Haule, G Kotliar - Nature materials, 2011 - nature.com
The iron pnictide and chalcogenide compounds are a subject of intensive investigations
owing to their surprisingly high temperature superconductivity. They all share the same …

Extreme sensitivity of superconductivity to stoichiometry in

TM McQueen, Q Huang, V Ksenofontov, C Felser… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
The recently discovered iron arsenide superconductors appear to display a universal set of
characteristic features, including proximity to a magnetically ordered state and robustness of …

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 …

To what extent iron-pnictide new superconductors have been clarified: a progress report

K Ishida, Y Nakai, H Hosono - Journal of the Physical Society of …, 2009 - journals.jps.jp
In this review, the authors present a summary of experimental reports on newly discovered
iron-based superconductors as they were known at the end of 2008. At the same time, this …

Pressure evolution of the low-temperature crystal structure and bonding of the superconductor FeSe

S Margadonna, Y Takabayashi, Y Ohishi… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
α-FeSe with the PbO structure is a key member of the family of high-T c iron pnictide and
chalcogenide superconductors, as while it possesses the basic layered structural motif of …

Observation of superconductivity in tetragonal FeS

X Lai, H Zhang, Y Wang, X Wang, X Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The possibility of superconductivity in tetragonal FeS has attracted considerable interest
because of its similarities to the FeSe superconductor. However, all efforts made to pursue …

Magnetism in Fe-based superconductors

MD Lumsden, AD Christianson - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review, we present a summary of experimental studies of magnetism in Fe-based
superconductors. The do** dependent phase diagram shows strong similarities to the …