Determination of the upper critical field of a single crystal LiFeAs: The magnetic torque study up to 35 tesla

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Kurita, Nobuyuki ^a,b   Kitagawa, Kentaro ^b,c   Matsubayashi, Kazuyuki ^b,c   Kismarahardja, Ade ^d   Choi, Eun Sang ^d   Brooks, James S ^d   Uwatoko, Yoshiya ^b,c   Uji, Shinya ^a,b,e   Terashima, Taichi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Iron based superconductor; LiFeAs; Upper critical field

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651284951     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: 13474073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.80.013706     Document Type: Article

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