Superconductivity in Weyl semimetal candidate MoTe2

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Qi, Yanpeng ^a   Naumov, Pavel G ^a   Ali, Mazhar N ^b   Rajamathi, Catherine R ^a   Schnelle, Walter ^a   Barkalov, Oleg ^a   Hanfland, Michael ^c   Wu, Shu Chun ^a   Shekhar, Chandra ^a   Sun, Yan ^a   Süß, Vicky ^a   Schmidt, Marcus ^a   Schwarz, Ulrich ^a   Pippel, Eckhard ^d   Werner, Peter ^d   Hillebrand, Reinald ^d   Förster, Tobias ^e   Kampert, Erik ^e   Parkin, Stuart ^d   Cava, R J ^b   Felser, Claudia ^a   Yan, Binghai ^a,f   Medvedev, Sergey A ^a   more..

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY; DIAGRAM; METAL; RESEARCH WORK; SPECTRUM; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

PHYSICS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS; PRESSURE; QUANTUM THEORY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM TELLURIDE; TELLURIUM;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONICS; ELECTRONS; MOLYBDENUM; PRESSURE; QUANTUM THEORY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TELLURIUM; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84960968335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11038     Document Type: Article

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