Magneto-optical measurements of a cascade of transitions in superconducting La 1.875Ba 0.125CuO 4 Single Crystals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 14, 2012, Pages

  Karapetyan, Hovnatan ^a,b   Hucker M ^c   Gu, G D ^c   Tranquada, J M ^c   Fejer, M M ^b   Xia, Jing ^d   Kapitulnik, A ^a,b  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE MEASUREMENTS; CUPRATES; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYSTERETIC BEHAVIOR; LOW TEMPERATURES; MAGNETO-OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS; POLAR KERR EFFECT; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSITION; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES;

COPPER COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

LANTHANUM;

EID: 84867019077     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.147001     Document Type: Article

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