Nematic superconducting state in iron pnictide superconductors

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02016-y