Enhanced critical current density in the pressure-induced magnetic state of the high-temperature superconductor FeSe

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jung, Soon Gil ^a   Kang, Ji Hoon ^a   Park, Eunsung ^a   Lee, Sangyun ^a   Lin, Jiunn Yuan ^b   Chareev, Dmitriy A ^c   Vasiliev, Alexander N ^d,e,f   Park, Tuson ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MISIS   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 84946811818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep16385     Document Type: Article

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