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One hundred years after its discovery by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes in April 1911 in Leiden [1], superconductivity is still a fascinating and mysterious topic. Nearly half a century had to pass by until its mechanism in the conventional superconductors with rather low transition temperatures (T c ) could be explained consistently within the theory by Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer (BCS), published in 1957 [2]. Nowadays, most of the unconventional superconductors such as heavy fermions, discovered in 1979 [3], and the famous high temperature cuprate superconductors, discovered in 1986 [4], are far from being understood completely.
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Hammerath, F. (2012). Introduction. In: Magnetism and Superconductivity in Iron-based Superconductors as Probed by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8348-2423-3_1
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