Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Nematic superconducting state in iron pnictide superconductors

  • Jun Li,
  • Paulo J. Pereira,
  • Jie Yuan,
  • Yang-Yang Lv,
  • Mei-Ping Jiang,
  • Dachuan Lu,
  • Zi-Quan Lin,
  • Yong-Jie Liu,
  • Jun-Feng Wang,
  • Liang Li,
  • Xiaoxing Ke,
  • Gustaaf Van Tendeloo,
  • Meng-Yue Li,
  • Hai-Luke Feng,
  • Takeshi Hatano,
  • Hua-Bing Wang,
  • Pei-Heng Wu,
  • Kazunari Yamaura,
  • Eiji Takayama-Muromachi,
  • Johan Vanacken,
  • Liviu F. Chibotaru,
  • Victor V. Moshchalkov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02016-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Nematic electronic order is rare and its onset often indicates a phase transition. Here, Li et al. report a nematic superconducting state in Ba0.5K0.5Fe2As2 by measuring the angular dependence of the in-plane and out-of-plane magnetoresistivity.