Optical Studies of Broken Symmetries (Particularly TRS) in Solids

1. Eylon Eylon Persky, Alan Fang, Xinyang Zhang, Carolina Adamo, Eli Levenson-Falk, Phillip Wu, Chandra Shekhar, Claudia Felser, Binghai Yan, Aharon Kapitulnik, "Possible Unconventional Surface Superconductivity in the Half-Heusler YPtBi,"(Submitted). https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.17213
2.  David R. Saykin, Camron Farhang, Erik D. Kountz, Dong Chen, Brenden R. Ortiz, Chandra Shekhar, Claudia Felser, Stephen D. Wilson, Ronny Thomale, Jing Xia, Aharon Kapitulnik, "High Resolution Polar Kerr Effect Studies of CsV₃Sb₅: Tests for Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking Below the Charge Order Transition,"  Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 016901 (2023). https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10570
3. Di S. Wei, David Saykin, Oliver Y. Miller, Sheng Ran, Shanta R. Saha, Daniel F. Agterberg, Joerg Schmalian, Nicholas P. Butch, Johnpierre Paglione, Aharon Kapitulnik, "Interplay between magnetism and superconductivity in UTe₂," Phys. Rev. B 105, 024521 (2022). https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09838
4. Sejoon Lim, Chandra M. Varma, Hiroshi Eisaki, Aharon Kapitulnik, "Observation of broken inversion and chiral symmetries in the pseudogap phase in single and double layer bismuth-based cuprates," Phys. Rev. B 105, 155103 (2022). https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06755
5. Ian M. Hayes, Di S. Wei, Tristin Metz, Jian Zhang, Yun Suk Eo, Sheng Ran, Shanta R. Saha, John Collini, Nicholas P. Butch, Daniel F. Agterberg, Aharon Kapitulnik, Johnpierre Paglione, "Multicomponent superconducting order parameter in UTe₂," Science 373, 797 (2021). https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02539
6. Tarapada Sarkar, D. S. Wei, J. Zhang, N. R. Poniatowski, P. R. Mandal, A. Kapitulnik, and Richard L. Greene, "Ferromagnetic order beyond the superconducting dome in a cuprate superconductor," Science 368, 532 (2020). https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.11235
7. Sejoon Lim, Catherine R. Rajamathi, Vicky Süß, Claudia Felser, Aharon Kapitulnik, "Temperature-induced inversion of the spin-photogalvanic effect in WTe₂ and MoTe₂," Phys. Rev. B 98, 121301 (2018). https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02838
8. E. R. Schemm, W. J. Gannon, C. M. Wishne, W. P. Halperin, A. Kapitulnik, "Observation of broken time-reversal symmetry in the heavy-fermion superconductor UPt3," SCIENCE 345, 190 (2014) .
9. Hovnatan Karapetyan, Jing Xia, M. Hucker, G. D. Gu, J. M. Tranquada, M.M. Fejer, A. Kapitulnik,  "Evidence of chiral order in the charge-ordered phase of La_1.875Ba_0.125CuO₄, Phys. Rev. Lett 112 (2014), 047003. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.4785v2.pdf.
10. From a Single-Band Metal to a High-Temperature Superconductor via Two Thermal Phase Transitions ,Rui-Hua He, M. Hashimoto, H. Karapetyan, J. D. Koralek, J. P. Hinton, J. P. Testaud, V. Nathan, Y. Yoshida, Hong Yao, K. Tanaka, W. Meevasana, R. G. Moore, D. H. Lu, S.-K. Mo, M. Ishikado, H. Eisaki, Z. Hussain, T. P. Devereaux, S. A. Kivelson, J. Orenstein, A. Kapitulnik, and Z.-X. Shen, SCIENCE 331 (6024) 1579-1583, (2011). http://arxiv.org/pdf/1103.2329​.
11. Polar Kerr effect as probe for time-reversal symmetry breaking in unconventional superconductors ,Aharon Kapitulnik, Jing Xia, Elizabeth Schemm and Alexander Palevski, New J. Phys. 11, 055060 (2009). http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2845​
12. Search for time-reversal symmetry breaking in unconventional superconductors, Aharon Kapitulnik, Jing Xia, and Elizabeth Schemm, Physica B: Physics of Condensed Matter, 404, 507 (2009).​
13. Critical thickness for itinerant ferromagnetism in ultrathin films of SrRuO₃, Jing Xia, W. Siemons, G. Koster, M.R. Beasley, and A. Kapitulnik, Phys. Rev. B 79, 140407 (2009). arXiv:0811.0384.​
14. Inverse proximity effect in superconductor-ferromagnet bilayer structures Jing Xia, V. Shelukhin, M. Karpovski, A. Kapitulnik, and A. Palevski, arXiv:0810.2605.​
15. Polar Kerr Effect Measurements of YBa₂Cu₃O_6+x: Evidence for Broken Symmetry Near the Pseudogap Temperature, 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, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 127002 (2008), arXiv:0711.2494​
16. High Resolution Polar Kerr Effect Measurements of Sr₂RuO₄: Evidence for Broken Time Reversal Symmetry in the Superconducting State, Jing Xia, Maeno Yoshiteru, Peter T. Beyersdorf, M. M. Fejer, Aharon Kapitulnik, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 167002 (2006), https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607539​
17. Modified Sagnac interferometer for high-sensitivity magneto-optic measurements atcryogenic temperatures, Jing Xia, Peter T. Beyersdorf, Martin M. Fejer, and Aharon Kapitulnik, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 062508 (2006), https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603284.
18. Test for Nonreciprocal Circular Birefringence in YBa₂Cu₃O₇ Thin Films as Evidence for Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry, S. Spielman, K. Fesler, C.B. Eom, T. H. Geballe, M. M. Fejer, and A. Kapitulnik, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 123 (1990).
19. Test for Non-Reciprocal Circular Birefringence in Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈, S. Spielman, J. S. Dodge, K. Fesler, L. W. Lombardo, M. M. Fejer, T. H. Geballe, and A. Kapitulnik,  Phys. Rev. B 45, 3149 (1992).
20. Measurement of the spontaneous polar Kerr effect in YBa₂Cu₃O₇ and Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈, S. Spielman, J.S. Dodge, L.W. Lombardo, C.B. Eom, M.M. Fejer, T.H. Geballe, and A. Kapitulnik, Phys. Rev. Lett.  68, 3472 (1992).
21. Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking in Biological Molecules, S. Doniach, A. Kapitulnik, P. Frank, M. M. Fejer, S. Spielman and J. S. Dodge.  (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1992) p 452.
22. High-Resolution Magneto-optic Measurements with a Sagnac Interferometer,  A. Kapitulnik, J.S. Dodge, and M.M. Fejer, J. Appl. Phys. 75, 6872 (1994).
23. Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and strong magneto-optic properties of SrRuO3 epitaxial films,  L. Klein, J.S. Dodge, T.H. Geballe, A. Kapitulnik, A.F. Marshall, L. Antognazza and K. Char, Appl. Phys. Lett. 66, 2427 (1995).
24. Symmetry of the Magnetooptic Response of the Sagnac Interferometer, J.S. Dodge, L. Klein, M.M. Fejer, A. Kapitulnik, J. Appl. Phys. 79, 6186 (1996).
25. Temperature-dependent Local Exchange Splitting in SrRuO3, J.S. Dodge, L. Klein, C.H. Ahn, J.W. Reiner, L. Mieville, T.H. Geballe, M.R. Beasley, A. Kapitulnik, H. Ohta, Yu. Uspenskii, S. Halilov, and E. Kulatov, Phys. Rev. B 60, R6987 (1999).

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