Polar Kerr effect as probe for time-reversal symmetry breaking in unconventional superconductors

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kapitulnik, Aharon ^a   Xia, Jing ^a   Schemm, Elizabeth ^a   Palevski, Alexander ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROKEN TIME-REVERSAL SYMMETRY; KERR EFFECTS; POLAR KERR EFFECT; PROXIMITY EFFECTS; PSEUDOGAP STATE; SR2RUO4; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES; UNCONVENTIONAL SUPERCONDUCTORS;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PROBES; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

MAGNETOS;

EID: 67650077194     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/5/055060     Document Type: Article

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