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Electronic in-plane symmetry breaking at field-tuned quantum criticality in CeRhIn
- Source :
- Nature. 548(7667)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Electronic nematic materials are characterized by a lowered symmetry of the electronic system compared to the underlying lattice, in analogy to the directional alignment without translational order in nematic liquid crystals. Such nematic phases appear in the copper- and iron-based high-temperature superconductors, and their role in establishing superconductivity remains an open question. Nematicity may take an active part, cooperating or competing with superconductivity, or may appear accidentally in such systems. Here we present experimental evidence for a phase of fluctuating nematic character in a heavy-fermion superconductor, CeRhIn
Details
- ISSN :
- 14764687
- Volume :
- 548
- Issue :
- 7667
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nature
- Accession number :
- edsair.pmid..........64c3ae954e6476ca657f3ba8a1333530