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Superconducting Pr$_2$CuO$_x$, $x\simeq 4$ films with $T^\prime$ structure and a $T_c$ of 27 K have been investigated by millimeter-wave transmission and broadband (infrared-to-ultraviolet) reflectivity measurements in the normal and…
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Recent thermal conductivity measurements on $\mathrm{Sr_2 Ru O_4}$ [E. Hassinger et al., Phys. Rev. X 7, 011032 (2017)] were interpreted as favoring a pairing gap function with vertical line nodes while conflicting with chiral $p$-wave…
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We report the complex dielectric function of high-quality nearly-stoichiometric Rb2Fe4Se5 (RFS) single crystals with Tc=32 K determined by wide-band spectroscopic ellipsometry and time-domain transmission spectroscopy in the spectral range…
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