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Commonalities in phase and mode

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Muon and neutron experiments on the new FeAs-based superconductors reveal phase diagrams and spin excitation modes with striking similarities to a wide range of other unconventional superconductors.

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Figure 1: Electronic phase diagrams shown as functions of temperature T and composition, pressure and/or unit-cell volume in different superconductors.
Figure 2: Correlations between Tc and the mode energy of the magnetic resonance mode observed in the superconducting state of the high-Tc cuprate systems (ref. 11, Ba,K)Fe2As2 (ref. 12), CeCoIn5 (ref. 13) and CeCu2Si2 (ref. 14), shown by elongated circles.

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Uemura, Y. Commonalities in phase and mode. Nature Mater 8, 253–255 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2415

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