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Iron arsenide superconductors

What is the glue?

Is superconductivity in the iron arsenides conventional? The large isotope effect on both the magnetic and superconducting transitions may indicate that magnetic fluctuations are involved in the superconducting pairing.

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Hinks, D. What is the glue?. Nature Phys 5, 386–387 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1297

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