Polar kerr-effect measurements of the high-temperature YBa2Cu3O6+x superconductor: Evidence for broken symmetry near the pseudogap temperature

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Xia, Jing ^a,b   Schemm, Elizabeth ^a,b   Deutscher, G ^c   Kivelson, S A ^a,b   Bonn, D A ^d   Hardy, W N ^d   Liang, R ^d   Siemons, W ^b,e   Koster, G ^b,e   Fejer, M M ^a   Kapitulnik, A ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; INTERFEROMETERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

POLAR KERR EFFECT; PSEUDOGAP TEMPERATURE; SAGNAC FIBER INTERFEROMETER;

YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDES;

EID: 41549124956     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.127002     Document Type: Article

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