Interplay of superconductivity, magnetism, and density waves in rare-earth tritellurides and iron-based superconducting materials

Superconductivity, charge- and spin-density waves are collective electronic phenomena that originate from electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions, and the concept of Fermi surface competition between these collective states is one of the most fundamental problems of condensed matter physics. High pressures provide a clean method to tune the electronic properties that determine the superconducting, magnetic or charge-ordered ground states of complex materials. The charge-density wave, magnetic and superconducting ordered states of the rare-earth tritellurides system, and the interplay between the spin-density wave, localized magnetism and superconductivity in the recently discovered Fe-based high -temperature superconductors, have been investigated under extreme conditions of pressure, magnetic field and low temperature