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

Autor: Jing, Xia, Elizabeth, Schemm, G, Deutscher, S A, Kivelson, D A, Bonn, W N, Hardy, R, Liang, W, Siemons, G, Koster, M M, Fejer, A, Kapitulnik
Rok vydání: 2007
Zdroj: Physical review letters. 100(12)
ISSN: 0031-9007
Popis: The polar Kerr effect in the high-T_(c) superconductor YBa2Cu3O6+x was measured at zero magnetic field with high precision using a cyogenic Sagnac fiber interferometer. We observed nonzero Kerr rotations of order approximately 1 microrad appearing near the pseudogap temperature T(*) and marking what appears to be a true phase transition. Anomalous magnetic behavior in magnetic-field training of the effect suggests that time reversal symmetry is already broken above room temperature.
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