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arxiv: 1405.0752 · v2 · pith:WECO3ZXAnew · submitted 2014-05-05 · ❄️ cond-mat.supr-con · cond-mat.str-el

Kerr effect as evidence of gyrotropic order in the cuprates - revisited

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Recent analysis has confirmed earlier general arguments that the Kerr response vanishes in any time-reversal invariant system which satisfies the Onsager relations. Thus, the widely cited relation between natural optical activity (gyrotropy) and the Kerr response, employed in Hosur \textit{et al}, Phys. Rev. B \textbf{87}, 115116 (2013), is incorrect. However, there is increasingly clear experimental evidence that, as argued in our paper, the onset of an observable Kerr-signal in the cuprates reflects point-group symmetry rather than time-reversal symmetry breaking.

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