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Nature Physics 5, 87 - 88 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphys1192

Subject Category: Condensed-matter physics

Iron-based superconductors: Timing is crucial

Warren E. Pickett1

  1. Warren E. Pickett is in the Department of Physics, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616-8677, USA.
    e-mail: pickett@physics.ucdavis.edu


Many studies into the properties of the recently discovered ferropnictide superconductors lead to seemingly contradictory interpretations. Such discrepancies could be explained by the emergence of temporally fluctuating excitations formed by the antiphase boundaries between local spin-density-wave domains.

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