High resolution polar Kerr effect measurements of Sr2RuO4: Evidence for broken time-reversal symmetry in the superconducting state

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  Xia, Jing ^a   Maeno, Yoshiteru ^b   Beyersdorf, Peter T ^c   Fejer, M M ^a   Kapitulnik, Aharon ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

KERR ROTATIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING STATE; TIME-REVERSAL SYMMETRY;

STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33750236662     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.167002     Document Type: Article

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