Phase separation and magnetic order in K-doped iron selenide superconductor

Nature Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 126-130

  Li, Wei ^a   Ding, Hao ^a   Deng, Peng ^a   Chang, Kai ^a   Song, Canli ^a   He, Ke ^b   Wang, Lili ^b   Ma, Xucun ^b   Hu, Jiang Ping ^c   Chen, Xi ^a   Xue, Qi Kun ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84856608585     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2155     Document Type: Article

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