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1Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Avenue SW, Washington, D.C., 20375, USA.
Abstract:
The discovery of the new class of pnictide superconductors has engendered a controversy about their pairing symmetry, with proposals ranging from an extended s wave or "s_{+/-}" symmetry to nodal or nodeless d-wave symmetry to still more exotic order parameters such as p wave. In this Letter, building on the earlier, similar work performed for the cuprates, we propose several phase-sensitive Josephson interferometry experiments, each of which may allow resolution of the issue.
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