Anisotropy of electrical transport in pnictide superconductors studied using Monte Carlo simulations of the spin-fermion model

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Liang, Shuhua ^a,b   Alvarez, Gonzalo ^b   Aen, Cengiz ^a,b   Moreo, Adriana ^a,b   Dagotto, Elbio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; FE-BASED SUPERCONDUCTORS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MAGNETIC ORDERING TEMPERATURES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; ORBITAL ORDER; PNICTIDES; RESISTANCE VERSUS TEMPERATURE CURVES; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; SPIN ORDER; SPIN-FERMION MODEL; TWO DIRECTIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CLUSTERS; UNIAXIAL STRESS;

ANISOTROPY; NEEL TEMPERATURE; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84864186422     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.047001     Document Type: Article

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