Doping dependence of spin excitations and its correlations with high-temperature superconductivity in iron pnictides

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Meng ^a   Zhang, Chenglin ^b,c   Lu, Xingye ^a,c   Tan, Guotai ^c   Luo, Huiqian ^a   Song, Yu ^b,c   Wang, Miaoyin ^c   Zhang, Xiaotian ^a   Goremychkin, E A ^d   Perring, T G ^d   Maier, T A ^e   Yin, Zhiping ^f   Haule, Kristjan ^f   Kotliar, Gabriel ^f   Dai, Pengcheng ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON DERIVATIVE; IRON PNICTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ELECTRON; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IRON; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONDUCTANCE; DISPERSION; ELECTRON; ELECTRON DOPING; ENERGY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NEUTRON SCATTERING; SPIN EXCITATION;

EID: 84890160454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3874     Document Type: Article

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