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SUBMITTER: Ren Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7782804 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20210104 1
In a material prone to a nematic instability, anisotropic strain in principle provides a preferred symmetry-breaking direction for the electronic nematic state to follow. This is consistent with experimental observations, where electronic nematicity and structural anisotropy typically appear hand-in-hand. In this work, we discover that electronic nematicity can be locally decoupled from the underlying structural anisotropy in strain-engineered iron-selenide (FeSe) thin films. We use heteroepitax ...[more]