Fractional Vortices as Evidence of Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in High-Temperature Superconductors

Preprint

23 July 1994

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

Abstract

We argue that recent experiments by Kirtley et al. may show evidence of time reversal symmetry breaking in YBCO at crystal grain boundaries. We illustrate this through a Ginzburg-Landau model calculation. Further experimental tests are proposed.

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Published version: Physical Review Letters, 74 (16), 3249.