Proposed chiral texture of the magnetic moments of unit-cell loop currents in the pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Pershoguba, Sergey S ^a   Kechedzhi, Kostyantyn ^a   Yakovenko, Victor M ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPOLE MOMENT; HELICAL STRUCTURES; INVERSION SYMMETRY; LOOP CURRENT; ORDER PARAMETER; POLAR KERR EFFECT; PSEUDOGAP PHASE; UNDERDOPED CUPRATES;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 84880881062     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.047005     Document Type: Article

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