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 …

Iron-based superconductors: Current status of materials and pairing mechanism

H Hosono, K Kuroki - Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications, 2015 - Elsevier
Since the discovery of high T c iron-based superconductors in early 2008, more than 15,000
papers have been published as a result of intensive research. This paper describes the …

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 …

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 …

Low-energy microscopic models for iron-based superconductors: a review

RM Fernandes, AV Chubukov - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The development of sensible microscopic models is essential to elucidate the normal-state
and superconducting properties of the iron-based superconductors. Because these …

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 …

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 …

Spin fluctuations and superconductivity in a three-dimensional tight-binding model for

S Graser, AF Kemper, TA Maier, HP Cheng… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
Despite the wealth of experimental data on the Fe-pnictide compounds of the K Fe 2 As 2
type, K= Ba, Ca, or Sr, the main theoretical work based on multiorbital tight-binding models …

Evidence for superconducting gap nodes in the zone-centered hole bands of from magnetic penetration-depth measurements

K Hashimoto, A Serafin, S Tonegawa, R Katsumata… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
Among the iron-based pnictide superconductors the material KFe 2 As 2 is unusual in that its
Fermi surface does not consist of quasinested electron and hole pockets. Here we report …

Superconductivity and spin-density waves in multiband metals

AB Vorontsov, MG Vavilov, AV Chubukov - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2010 - APS
We present a detailed description of two-band quasi-two-dimensional metals with s-wave
superconducting (SC) and antiferromagnetic spin-density-wave (SDW) correlations. We …