Evidence of a spin resonance mode in the iron-based superconductor Ba 0.6K 0.4Fe 2As 2 from scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Shan, Lei ^a   Gong, Jing ^a   Wang, Yong Lei ^a   Shen, Bing ^a   Hou, Xingyuan ^a   Ren, Cong ^a   Li, Chunhong ^a   Yang, Huan ^a,b   Wen, Hai Hu ^a,b   Li, Shiliang ^a   Dai, Pengcheng ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSONIC EXCITATIONS; ELECTRON SPINS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-T; IRON PNICTIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS; IRON-BASED SUPERCONDUCTORS; MODE ENERGIES; QUASIPARTICLE DENSITY; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SPIN RESONANCE; SUPERCONDUCTING ORDER PARAMETERS;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; IRON; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84861792495     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.227002     Document Type: Article

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