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 …

New high-temperature superconductors based on rare-earth and transition metal oxyarsenides and related phases: synthesis, properties and simulations

AL Ivanovskii - Physics-Uspekhi, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
The discovery in February 2008 of superconductivity with the transition temperature about
26 K in fluorine-doped oxyarsenide LaO 1–x F x FeAs stimulated numerous studies of …

Density functional study of FeS, FeSe, and FeTe: Electronic structure, magnetism, phonons, and superconductivity

A Subedi, L Zhang, DJ Singh, MH Du - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2008 - APS
We report density functional calculations of the electronic structure, Fermi surface, phonon
spectrum, magnetism, and electron-phonon coupling for the superconducting phase FeSe …

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 …

First-order magnetic and structural phase transitions in

S Li, C de La Cruz, Q Huang, Y Chen, JW Lynn… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
We use bulk magnetic susceptibility, electronic specific heat, and neutron scattering to study
structural and magnetic phase transitions in Fe 1+ y Se x Te 1− x. Fe 1.068 Te exhibits a first …

Structural and magnetic phase diagram of CeFeAsO1− xFx and its relation to high-temperature superconductivity

J Zhao, Q Huang, C De La Cruz, S Li, JW Lynn… - Nature materials, 2008 - nature.com
Abstract Recently, high-transition-temperature (high-T c) superconductivity was discovered
in the iron pnictide RFeAsO1− x F x (R, rare-earth metal) family of materials. We use neutron …

Coherence–incoherence crossover in the normal state of iron oxypnictides and importance of Hund's rule coupling

K Haule, G Kotliar - New journal of physics, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
A new class of high-temperature superconductors based on iron and arsenic was recently
discovered (Kamihara et al 2008 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130 3296), with the superconducting …

Ferro-Orbital Order and Strong Magnetic Anisotropy in the Parent Compounds<? format?> of Iron-Pnictide Superconductors

CC Lee, WG Yin, W Ku - Physical Review Letters, 2009 - APS
The puzzling nature of magnetic and lattice phase transitions of iron pnictides is investigated
via a first-principles Wannier function analysis of representative parent compound LaOFeAs …

Electronic structure and do** in and LiFeAs: Density functional calculations

DJ Singh - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2008 - APS
We report density functional calculations of the electronic structure and Fermi surface of the
BaFe 2 As 2 and LiFeAs phases including do** via the virtual-crystal approximation. The …

Magnetism and charge dynamics in iron pnictides

ZP Yin, K Haule, G Kotliar - Nature physics, 2011 - nature.com
Unconventional superconductivity occurs in close proximity to a magnetically ordered state
in many materials,. Uncovering the character of the proximate magnetic phase is a crucial …