Related papers: High-Temperature Anomalous Metal States in Iron-Ba…
Iron-based superconductors are a fascinating family of materials in which multiple electronic bands and strong antiferromagnetic (AFM) correlations are key ingredients for competing ground states, including antiferromagnetism, electronic…
The anomalous Hall effect (AHE), a hallmark of time-reversal symmetry breaking, has been reported in rutile RuO2, a debated metallic altermagnetic candidate. Previously, AHE in RuO2 was observed only in strain-relaxed thick films under…
Ambient pressure studies on high purity single crystals of the stoichiometric 4f-electron metal CeNi2Ge2 reveal anomalous low temperature forms of the resistivity which challenge our understanding of the metallic state. Comparisons are made…
Unconventional superconductivity remains one of the central unsolved problems in quantum materials, and revealing its connection to the normal state is widely believed to be key to uncovering the pairing mechanism. Previous efforts have…
Interface-enhanced high-temperature superconductivity in one unit-cell (UC) FeSe films on SrTiO3(001) (STO) substrate has recently attracted much attention in condensed matter physics and material science. By combined in-situ scanning…
Stabilized FeSe thin films in ambient pressure with tunable superconductivity would be a promising candidate for superconducting electronic devices yet its superconducting transition temperature (Tc) is below 10 K in bulk materials. By…
The strange metal (SM) state, characterized by a linear-in-temperature resistivity, is often seen in the normal state of high temperature superconductors. It is believed that the SM state is one of the keys to understand the underlying…
Systems of superconducting islands placed on normal metal films offer tunable realizations of two-dimensional (2D) superconductivity; they can thus elucidate open questions regarding the nature of 2D superconductors and competing states. In…
Heterogeneous superconductivity onset is a common phenomenon in high-$T_c$ superconductors of both the cuprate and iron-based families. It is manifested by a fairly wide transition from the metallic to zero-resistance state. Usually, in…
High-temperature superconductivity in the iron-based materials emerges from, or sometimes coexists with, their metallic or insulating parent compound states. This is surprising since these undoped states display dramatically different…
Synthesis of monolayer FeSe on SrTiO3, with greatly enhanced superconductivity compared to bulk FeSe, remains difficult. Lengthy annealing within a certain temperature window is always required to achieve superconducting samples as reported…
We report on an anomalous magnetization observed with temperature for low magnetic fields applied in the plane of a film formed by a thin layer of Fe-Rh deposited on a thin foil of ordered Fe$_3$Pt. The anomalous effect resembles a…
We study the magnetic field induced superconductor-metal transition (SMT) in ultrathin crystalline Pb films. By performing ultralow temperature transport measurement, the divergent critical exponent as an indication of quantum Griffiths…
We report high temperature superconductivity in one unit-cell (1-UC) FeSe films grown on STO(110) substrate by molecular beam epitaxy. By in-situ scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurement, we observed a superconducting gap as large as 17…
Iron selenide (FeSe) - the structurally simplest iron-based superconductor, has attracted tremendous interest in the past years. While the transition temperature (Tc) of bulk FeSe is $\sim$ 8 K, it can be significantly enhanced to 40 - 50 K…
Integration of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) on ferromagnetic materials (FM) may yield fascinating physics and promise for electronics and spintronic applications. In this work, high-temperature anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in the…
The pressure dependence of superconducting transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$ has been investigated through the DC magnetic measurements for FeSe$_{0.8}$ and FeSe$_{1.0}$. For both samples, with increasing pressure $P$, the $T_{\rm…
Discoveries of ordered quantum states of matter are of great fundamental interest, and often lead to unique applications. The most well known example -- superconductivity -- is caused by the formation and condensation of pairs of electrons.…
Motivated by the discovery of the anomalous metal state in thin film systems and suggestions that coexistence of superconducting and metallic components is crucial to the formation of the state, we study in this paper a model of mixed…
The so-called "strange metal phase" [1] of high temperature (high Tc) superconductors remains at the heart of the high Tc mystery. Better experimental data and insightful theoretical work would improve our understanding of this enigmatic…