Observation of temperature-induced crossover to an orbital-selective mott phase in AxFe2-ySe2 (A=K, Rb) superconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Yi, M ^a,b   Lu, D H ^c   Yu, R ^d   Riggs, S C ^a,b   Chu, J H ^a,b   Lv, B ^e   Liu, Z K ^a,b   Lu, M ^a,f   Cui, Y T ^a   Hashimoto, M ^c   Mo, S K ^g   Hussain, Z ^g   Chu, C W ^e   Fisher, I R ^a,b   Si, Q ^d   Shen, Z X ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of Houston   (United States)

^f NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUND'S COUPLING; IRON-BASED SUPERCONDUCTORS; LOW TEMPERATURES; LOW-TEMPERATURE STATE; METALLIC STATE; MOTT PHASE; RENORMALIZATION; SPECTRAL WEIGHT; SUPERCONDUCTING STATE; TEMPERATURE-INDUCED; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; RUBIDIUM;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84873433888     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.067003     Document Type: Article

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