Nematicity and quantum paramagnetism in FeSe

Nature Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 959-963

  Wang, Fa ^a,b   Kivelson, Steven A ^c   Lee, Dung Hai ^d,e  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter ^*  (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; IRON COMPOUNDS; PARAMAGNETISM; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SPIN FLUCTUATIONS;

EXACTLY SOLVABLE MODEL; FORBIDDEN TRANSITIONS; IRON-BASED HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR; MAGNETIC FLUCTUATION; PARAMAGNETIC PHASE; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT; VALENCE BOND CRYSTALS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84947028819     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys3456     Document Type: Article

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