A common thread: The pairing interaction for unconventional superconductors

DJ Scalapino - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2012 - APS
The structures, the phase diagrams, and the appearance of a neutron resonance signaling
an unconventional superconducting state provide phenomenological evidence relating the …

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 …

Maximally localized Wannier functions: Theory and applications

N Marzari, AA Mostofi, JR Yates, I Souza… - Reviews of Modern …, 2012 - APS
The electronic ground state of a periodic system is usually described in terms of extended
Bloch orbitals, but an alternative representation in terms of localized “Wannier functions” …

Iron-based high transition temperature superconductors

X Chen, P Dai, D Feng, T **ang… - National Science …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
In a superconductor electrons form pairs and electric transport becomes dissipation-less at
low temperatures. Recently discovered iron-based superconductors have the highest …

Nematicity and magnetism in FeSe and other families of Fe-based superconductors

Y Yamakawa, S Onari, H Kontani - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
Nematicity and magnetism are two key features in Fe-based superconductors, and their
interplay is one of the most important unsolved problems. In FeSe, the magnetic order is …

Nodal superconducting-gap structure in ferropnictide superconductor BaFe2(As0.7P0.3)2

Y Zhang, ZR Ye, QQ Ge, F Chen, J Jiang, M Xu… - Nature Physics, 2012 - nature.com
The superconducting-gap distribution is a pivotal characteristic for a superconductor.
Whereas the cuprates and conventional phonon-mediated superconductors are …

Evidence for time-reversal symmetry breaking of the superconducting state near twin-boundary interfaces in FeSe revealed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy

T Watashige, Y Tsutsumi, T Hanaguri, Y Kohsaka… - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
Junctions and interfaces consisting of unconventional superconductors provide an excellent
experimental playground to study exotic phenomena related to the phase of the order …

Orbital-independent superconducting gaps in iron pnictides

T Shimojima, F Sakaguchi, K Ishizaka, Y Ishida, T Kiss… - Science, 2011 - science.org
The origin of superconductivity in the iron pnictides has been attributed to antiferromagnetic
spin ordering that occurs in close combination with a structural transition, but there are also …

Directional point-contact Andreev-reflection spectroscopy of Fe-based superconductors: Fermi surface topology, gap symmetry, and electron–boson interaction

D Daghero, M Tortello, GA Ummarino… - Reports on Progress in …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Point-contact Andreev-reflection spectroscopy (PCAR) has proven to be one of the most
powerful tools in the investigation of superconductors, where it provides information on the …