Orbital-selective metal-insulator transition and gap formation above T C in superconducting Rb1-x Fe2-y Se2

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wang, Zhe ^a   Schmidt, M ^a   Fischer, J ^a   Tsurkan, V ^a,b   Greger, M ^a   Vollhardt, D ^a   Loidl, A ^a   Deisenhofer, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Moldova)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; RUBIDIUM; SELENIUM; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

CONDENSATION; CORRELATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INSULATION; METAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRACE METAL;

ARTICLE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; OPTICS; ORBIT; PHASE SEPARATION; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84893274525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4202     Document Type: Article

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