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SUBMITTER: Kissikov T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5849640 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180313 1
The iron-based high temperature superconductors exhibit a rich phase diagram reflecting a complex interplay between spin, lattice, and orbital degrees of freedom. The nematic state observed in these compounds epitomizes this complexity, by entangling a real-space anisotropy in the spin fluctuation spectrum with ferro-orbital order and an orthorhombic lattice distortion. A subtle and less-explored facet of the interplay between these degrees of freedom arises from the sizable spin-orbit coupling ...[more]