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A unified description of cuprate and iron arsenide superconductors

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We propose a unified description of cuprate and iron-based superconductivity. Consistency with magnetic structure inferred from neutron scattering implies significant constraints on the symmetry of the pairing gap for the iron-based superconductors. We find that this unification requires the orbital pairing formfactors for the iron arsenides to differ fundamentally from those for cuprates at the microscopic level.

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    Mike Guidry

  2. Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Yang Sun  (孙扬)

  3. Department of Physics, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Chungli, 320, Taiwan, China

    Cheng-Li Wu  (吴成礼)

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Guidry, M., Sun, Y. & Wu, CL. A unified description of cuprate and iron arsenide superconductors. Front. Phys. China 4, 433–446 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-009-0068-9

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