Persistent high-energy spin excitations in iron-pnictide superconductors

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhou, Ke Jin ^a,b   Huang, Yao Bo ^a,c   Monney, Claude ^a   Dai, Xi ^c   Strocov, Vladimir N ^a   Wang, Nan Lin ^c   Chen, Zhi Guo ^c   Zhang, Chenglin ^d   Dai, Pengcheng ^c,d   Patthey, Luc ^a   Van Den Brink, Jeroen ^e   Ding, Hong ^c   Schmitt, Thorsten ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; IRON PNICTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BARIUM; COPPER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; IRON; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENERGY; EXCITATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SUPERCONDUCTOR; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84874583526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2428     Document Type: Article

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