Orbital-driven nematicity in FeSe

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 210-214

  Baek, S H ^a   Efremov, D V ^a   Ok, J M ^b   Kim, J S ^b   Van Den Brink, Jeroen ^a,c   Buchner B ^a,c  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MECHANICS;

FE-BASED SYSTEMS; LATTICE RELAXATION RATES; ORBITAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES; SPIN DEGREES OF FREEDOM; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TIME-REVERSAL INVARIANCE;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

EID: 84923578858     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4138     Document Type: Article

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