Quantitative relationship between structural orthorhombicity, shear modulus, and heat capacity anomaly of the nematic transition in iron-based superconductors

Authors: Joshua Javier Sanchez, Paul Malinowski, Jong-Woo Kim, Philip Ryan, Jiun-Haw Chu Affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratories, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA. School of Physical Sciences, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland. Present address: Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

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