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 …

Colloquium: The unexpected properties of alkali metal iron <?format ?>selenide superconductors

E Dagotto - Reviews of modern physics, 2013 - APS
The iron-based superconductors that contain FeAs layers as the fundamental building block
in the crystal structures have been rationalized in the past using ideas based on the Fermi …

Ordered and tunable Majorana-zero-mode lattice in naturally strained LiFeAs

M Li, G Li, L Cao, X Zhou, X Wang, C **, CK Chiu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Majorana zero modes (MZMs) obey non-Abelian statistics and are considered building
blocks for constructing topological qubits,. Iron-based superconductors with topological …

Discovery of orbital-selective Cooper pairing in FeSe

PO Sprau, A Kostin, A Kreisel, AE Böhmer, V Taufour… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The superconductor iron selenide (FeSe) is of intense interest owing to its unusual
nonmagnetic nematic state and potential for high-temperature superconductivity. But its …

Observation of a robust zero-energy bound state in iron-based superconductor Fe (Te, Se)

JX Yin, Z Wu, JH Wang, ZY Ye, J Gong, XY Hou… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
In superconductors, electrons are paired and condensed into the ground state. An impurity
can break the electron pairs into quasiparticles with energy states inside the …

Using gap symmetry and structure to reveal the pairing mechanism in Fe-based superconductors

PJ Hirschfeld - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2016 - Elsevier
I review theoretical ideas and implications of experiments for the gap structure and symmetry
of the Fe-based superconductors. Unlike any other class of unconventional …

Imaging Cooper pairing of heavy fermions in CeCoIn5

MP Allan, F Massee, DK Morr, J Van Dyke, AW Rost… - Nature physics, 2013 - nature.com
The Cooper pairing mechanism of heavy fermionsuperconductors,,,, long thought to be due
to spin fluctuations,,, has not yet been determined. It is the momentum space (k-space) …

Plain s-wave superconductivity in single-layer FeSe on SrTiO3 probed by scanning tunnelling microscopy

Q Fan, WH Zhang, X Liu, YJ Yan, MQ Ren, R Peng… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Single-layer FeSe film on SrTiO3 (001) has recently come to the fore as an interfacial
superconducting system, with a transition temperature that is significantly enhanced with …

Visualization of electron nematicity and unidirectional antiferroic fluctuations at high temperatures in NaFeAs

EP Rosenthal, EF Andrade, CJ Arguello… - Nature physics, 2014 - nature.com
Superconductivity in the iron pnictides is often closely connected to a nematic state in which
the tetragonal symmetry of the crystal is spontaneously broken. Determining the dominant …

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 …