Disorder-induced topological change of the superconducting gap structure in iron pnictides

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mizukami, Y ^a,b   Konczykowski, M ^c   Kawamoto, Y ^a   Kurata, S ^a,b   Kasahara, S ^a   Hashimoto, K ^a,d   Mishra, V ^e   Kreisel, A ^f   Wang, Y ^f   Hirschfeld, P J ^f   Matsuda, Y ^a   Shibauchi, T ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SOLIDES IRRADIÉS   (France)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON;

IRRADIATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; S-WAVE; SUCCESSION; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TOPOLOGY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL; ELECTRON; IRON PNICTIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR; IRRADIATION; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 84922672327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6657     Document Type: Article

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