Superconductivity in iron-based compounds (Scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 29 January 2014)

A scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), entitled ‘Superconductivity in iron-based compounds’, was held on 29 January 2014 at the conference hall of the Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS.

The agenda of the session, announced on the website www.gpad.ac.ru of the RAS Physical Sciences Division listed the following reports:

(1) Eremin I M (Institut f$\ddot {\rm u}$r Theoretische Physik III, Ruhr-Universit$\ddot {\rm a}$t Bochum, Bochum, Deutschland; Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Kazan, Russian Federation) “Antiferromagnetism in iron-based superconductors: interaction of the magnetic, orbital, and lattice degrees of freedom”;

(2) Korshunov M M (Kirenskii Institute of Physics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk) “Superconducting state in iron-based materials and spin-fluctuation pairing theory”;

(3) Kuzmicheva T E (Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; Lomonosov Moscow State University) "Andreev spectroscopy of iron-based superconductors: temperature dependence of the order parameters and scaling of $\Delta_{\rm L, S}$ with $T_{\rm C}$;

(4) Eltsev Yu F (Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) “Synthesis and study of the magnetic and transport properties of iron-based superconductors of the 122 family”.

Papers written on the basis of oral presentations 1–4 are published below.