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Comment on "Multiorbital Effects on the Transport and the Superconducting Fluctuations in LiFeAs"

In the commented work (PRL 109, 187005 (2012)), Rullier-Albenque et al. present measurements of transverse magnetoresistivity above the transition temperature Tc in clean LiFeAs. By analyzing their data, these authors conclude that the conductivity induced by fluctuations follows a two-dimensional (2D) behavior even close to Tc, in spite that for LiFeAs the transverse coherence length ($ξ_c$(0)=1.6 nm) is larger than the Fe-layers spacing (s=0.636 nm), which would rather suggest a three-dimensional (3D) behavior. This striking proposal would have deep implications in the theoretical understanding of the multiband structure of iron pnictides, but it also contrasts with the 3D behavior observed near Tc in the same compound and in other iron pnictides with even smaller $ξ_c$(0)/s ratios. Here we show that the proposal of Rullier et al. could be just an artifact associated to an inadequate subtraction of the normal-state contribution.