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Iron cast in exotic role

Conventional wisdom says that superconductivity and magnetism are incompatible bedfellows. So the idea of iron as a superconductor is ruled out — or is it?

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Figure 1: The temperature–pressure phase diagram of iron.

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Saxena, S., Littlewood, P. Iron cast in exotic role. Nature 412, 290–291 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35085681

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