High resolution polar Kerr effect measurements of Sr2RuO4: evidence for broken time-reversal symmetry in the superconducting state |
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| Authors: | Xia Jing Maeno Yoshiteru Beyersdorf Peter T Fejer M M Kapitulnik Aharon |
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| Institution: | Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. |
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| Abstract: | The polar Kerr effect in the spin-triplet superconductor Sr2RuO4 was measured with high precision using a Sagnac interferometer with a zero-area Sagnac loop. We observed nonzero Kerr rotations as big as 65 nanorad appearing below Tc in large domains. Our results imply a broken time-reversal symmetry state in the superconducting state of Sr2RuO4, similar to 3He-A. |
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