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A Common Thread: the pairing interactions in the unconventional superconductors

Seminar Group: 

Speaker: 

Professor Douglas Scalapino

Address: 

Department of Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara

Date: 

Friday, October 24, 2014 - 4:00pm

Location: 

Eng II, Room 1519

Host: 

Professor Fyl Pincus

The lattice structures, the phase diagrams and a neutron scattering resonance implying an unconventional superconducting state provide evidence relating the cuprate, the Fe-pnictide/chalcogen and the heavy-fermion superconductors. Here we will review this and discuss the spin-fluctuation pairing interaction which we believe is responsible for pairing in this wide class of materials and provides the common thread linking them.