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Nature Materials 7, 927 - 928 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nmat2325

Iron-based superconductors: Unity or diversity?

Steven A. Kivelson1 & Hong Yao1

  1. Steven A. Kivelson and Hong Yao are in the Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4045, USA.
    e-mail: Kivelson@stanford.edu; e-mail: hyao@stanford.edu


Does the high-temperature superconductivity observed in the newly discovered iron pnictides represent another example of the same essential physics responsible for superconductivity in the cuprates, or does it embody a new mechanism?

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