Maximizing the Fermi-surface multiplicity optimizes the superconducting state of iron pnictide compounds

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Usui, Hidetomo ^a   Kuroki, Kazuhiko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

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EID: 79961193850     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.024505     Document Type: Article

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