Thermopower as a sensitive probe of electronic nematicity in iron pnictides

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Jiang, Shuai ^a,b   Jeevan, H S ^a   Dong, Jinkui ^a   Gegenwart, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC SCATTERING; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; IN-PLANE ANISOTROPY; LOW TEMPERATURES; ORBITAL POLARIZATIONS; PNICTIDES; RESISTIVITY ANISOTROPY; SENSITIVE PROBE; STRUCTURAL AND MAGNETIC PHASE TRANSITIONS; STRUCTURAL TRANSITIONS;

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY;

THERMOELECTRIC POWER;

EID: 84873344068     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.067001     Document Type: Article

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