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Nature Physics 5, 386 - 387 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphys1297

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics

Iron arsenide superconductors: What is the glue?

D. G. Hinks1

  1. D. G. Hinks is in the Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
    e-mail: hinks@anl.gov


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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