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Charge Dynamics in 122 Iron-Based Superconductors

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Observation of the outside world is one of the most ancient human activities. All the civilizations, or at least those of which records remain, observed, analyzed, and inferred. Human intellect possesses the amazing power to observe the outside world and distill these observations in a purely abstract way into a set of logical inferences that capture the world’s essence and explain its workings.

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    \(s\)-wave superconductors show zero conductivity below \(2\Delta \), which implies unity reflectance. Therefore, no transmission can be observed in single-crystalline superconducting samples with a sufficiently large superconducting gap at THz frequencies.

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Charnukha, A. (2014). Introduction. In: Charge Dynamics in 122 Iron-Based Superconductors. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01192-9_1

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