ELLIPSOMETRY AND BROKEN TIME-REVERSAL SYMMETRY IN THE HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS

被引:26
作者
CANRIGHT, GS [1 ]
ROJO, AG [1 ]
机构
[1] OAK RIDGE NATL LAB,DIV SOLID STATE,OAK RIDGE,TN 37831
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1992年 / 46卷 / 21期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.46.14078
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
We discuss ellipsometric experiments seeking evidence of broken time-reversal symmetry in the high-temperature copper oxide superconductors. We use both a generalized symmetry analysis, and a magnetoelectric model suggested by Dzyaloshinskii, to argue that the hypothesis that best fits the various experimental results is the PT-invariance hypothesis-which assumes broken T symmetry in each plane, and antiferromagnetic (alternating) order of the broken symmetry in the c direction. We suggest two experimental tests of the PT-invariant model; one of these is sufficient to rule out any other broken-symmetry state and so has the potential to be extremely useful.
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页码:14078 / 14088
页数:11
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