Inelastic neutron-scattering measurements of incommensurate magnetic excitations on superconducting LiFeAs single crystals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Qureshi, N ^a   Steffens, P ^b   Drees, Y ^a   Komarek, A C ^a   Lamago, D ^c,d   Sidis, Y ^c   Harnagea, L ^e   Grafe, H J ^e   Wurmehl, S ^e   Buchner B ^e   Braden, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC CORRELATION; MAGNETIC EXCITATIONS; SPECTRAL WEIGHT; SUPERCONDUCTING GAPS; WAVE VECTOR;

NEUTRON SCATTERING;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84858225041     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.117001     Document Type: Article

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