Incommensurate smectic phase in close proximity to the high-T c superconductor FeSe/SrTiO3

The relation between enhanced superconductivity in monolayer FeSe grown on SrTiO3 and the large nematicity in multilayer FeSe on SrTiO3 remains not well understood. Here, the authors observe a long-range smectic phase in bilayer FeSe films but vanishes in monolayer FeSe, providing a new instability...

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Main Authors: Yonghao Yuan, Xuemin Fan, Xintong Wang, Ke He, Yan Zhang, Qi-Kun Xue, Wei Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22516-2