Polymorphism control of superconductivity and magnetism in Cs3 C60 close to the Mott transition

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7303, 2010, Pages 221-225

  Ganin, Alexey Y ^a   Takabayashi, Yasuhiro ^b   Jeglič, Peter ^c   Arčon, Denis ^c,d   Potočnik, Anton ^c   Baker, Peter J ^e   Ohishi, Yasuo ^f   McDonald, Martin T ^b   Tzirakis, Manolis D ^b   McLennan, Alec ^a   Darling, George R ^a   Takata, Masaki ^f,g   Rosseinsky, Matthew J ^a   Prassides, Kosmas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^e RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^g RIKEN SPring 8 Center ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; CESIUM; FULLERENE;

ANION; CESIUM; COPPER COMPOUND; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FULLERENE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MAGNETISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77954482968     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09120     Document Type: Article

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