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Elucidating the nature of the magnetism of a high-temperature superconductor is crucial for establishing its pairing mechanism. The parent compounds of the cuprate and iron-pnictide superconductors exhibit N\'eel and stripe magnetic order,…

Recent developments in laser-excited photoemission electron microscopy (laser-PEEM) advance the visualization of electronic nematicity and nematic domain structures in iron-based superconductors. In FeSe and…

Strong interplay of spin and charge/orbital degrees of freedom is the fundamental characteristic of the iron-based superconductors (FeSCs), which leads to the emergence of a nematic state as a rule in the vicinity of the antiferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-31 S. H. Baek , Dilip Bhoi , Woohyun Nam , Bumsung Lee , D. V. Efremov , B. Büchner , Kee Hoon Kim

We derive the effective action for the collective spin modes in iron-based superconductors. We show that, due to the orbital-selective nature of spin fluctuations, the magnetic and nematic instabilities are controlled by the degrees of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-28 Laura Fanfarillo , Lara Benfatto , Belen Valenzuela

Superconductivity in FeSe emerges from a nematic phase that breaks four-fold rotational symmetry in the iron plane. This phase may arise from orbital ordering, spin fluctuations, or hidden magnetic quadrupolar order. Here we use inelastic…

The nematic electronic state and its associated nematic critical fluctuations have emerged as potential candidates for superconducting pairing in various unconventional superconductors. However, in most materials their coexistence with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-19 P. Reiss , D. Graf , A. A. Haghighirad , W. Knafo , L. Drigo , M. Bristow , A. J. Schofield , A. I. Coldea

Unconventional superconductivity often competes or coexists with other electronic orders. In iron-based superconductors, relationship between superconductivity and the nematic state, where the lattice rotational symmetry is spontaneously…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-29 T. Hanaguri , K. Iwaya , Y. Kohsaka , T. Machida , T. Watashige , S. Kasahara , T. Shibauchi , Y. Matsuda

The superconductivity discovered in iron-pnictides is intimately related to a nematic ground state, where the C4 rotational symmetry is broken via the structural and magnetic transitions. We here study the nematicity in NaFeAs with the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-02-28 Y. Zhang , C. He , Z. R. Ye , J. Jiang , F. Chen , M. Xu , Q. Q. Ge , B. P. Xie , J. Wei , M. Aeschlimann , X. Y. Cui , M. Shi , J. P. Hu , D. L. Feng

We have computed the correlated electronic structure of FeSe and its dependence on the A1g mode versus compression. Using the self-consistent density functional theory - dynamical mean field theory (DFT-DMFT) with continuous time quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Subhasish Mandal , R. E. Cohen , K. Haule

Electronic correlations were long suggested not only to be responsible for the complexity of many novel materials, but also to form essential prerequisites for their intriguing properties. Electronic behavior of iron-based superconductors…

FeSe, despite being the structurally simplest compound in the family of iron-based superconductors, shows an astoundingly rich interplay of physical phenomena including nematicity and pressure-induced magnetism. Here, we present a…

Nematic phase intertwines closely with high-Tc superconductivity in iron-based superconductors. Its mechanism, which is closely related to the pairing mechanism of superconductivity, still remains controversial. Comprehensive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-21 C. Cai , T. T. Han , Z. G. Wang , L. Chen , Y. D. Wang , Z. M. Xin , M. W. Ma , Yuan Li , Y. Zhang

The recent discovery of unconventional surface state pairs, which give rise to Fermi arcs and spin textures, in antiferromagnetically ordered NdBi raised the interest in rare-earth monopnictides. Several scenarios of antiferromagnetic order…

The compound UTe2 is of great recent interest as a spin triplet superconductor that is thought to realize a topologically nontrivial superconducting order parameter. Though UTe2 is considered to be a heavy fermion material, only…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-08 Shouzheng Liu , L. Andrew Wray

FeSe stands out among iron-based superconductors due to its extended nematic phase without the onset of long-range magnetic order. While strain-dependent electrical resistivity has been extensively explored to probe nematicity, its…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-22 M. Wissmann , L. Fanfarillo , X. -C. Hong , S. Caprara , S. Aswartham , B. Büchner , C. Hess , G. Seibold , F. Caglieris

We report the results of a parquet renormalization group (RG) study of competing instabilities in the full 2D four pocket, three orbital low-energy model for iron-based superconductors. We derive and analyze the RG flow of the couplings,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-15 Rui-Qi Xing , Laura Classen , Maxim Khodas , Andrey V. Chubukov

Electronic correlation is of fundamental importance to high temperature superconductivity. Iron-based superconductors are believed to possess moderate correlation strength, which combined with their multi-orbital nature makes them a…

The microscopic origin of the nematicity, namely, four-fold rotational symmetry breaking in iron-based superconductors has been controversial since its discovery. In particular, its relationship with the stripe-type spin-density-wave order…

We report an inelastic x-ray scattering investigation of phonons in FeSe superconductor. Comparing the experimental phonon dispersion with density functional theory (DFT) calculations in the non-magnetic state, we found a significant…

The in-plane resistivity anisotropy is studied in strain-detwinned single crystals of FeSe. In contrast to other iron-based superconductors, FeSe does not develop long-range magnetic order below the nematic/structural transition at…