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Article: New research on physics from G.F. Chen and co-authors summarized.
- Article from:
- Physics Week
- Article date:
- July 21, 2009
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According to recent research from Beijing, People's Republic of China, "Specific heat, resistivity, susceptibility, and Hall coefficient measurements were performed on high-quality single-crystalline Na1-delta FeAs."
"This compound is found to undergo three successive phase transitions at around 52, 41, and 23 K, which correspond to structural, magnetic, and superconducting transitions, respectively. The Hall effect result indicates the development of energy gap at low temperature due to the occurrence of spin-density-wave instability," wrote G.F. Chen and colleagues.
The researchers concluded: "Our results provide direct experimental evidence of the ...