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Iron-based superconductors

Timing is crucial

Nature Physics volume 5, pages 87–88 (2009)Cite this article

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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Figure 1: Conceptual phase diagrams.

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