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Implications of second harmonic generation for hidden order in Sr₂CuO₂Cl₂

  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon Brown University
  • 3. ROR icon University of Rennes 1
  • 4. ROR icon Argonne National Laboratory

Abstract

Sr₂CuO₂Cl₂ (SCOC) is a model undoped cuprate with I4/mmm crystallographic symmetry, and a simple magnetic space group C_Amca with associated magnetic point group mmm1′. However, recent second harmonic spectroscopy in the antiferromagnetic phase has challenged this picture, suggesting instead a magnetic point group 4/mm′m′ that coexists with the antiferromagnetism and breaks the two orthogonal mirror planes containing the tetragonal c axis. Here, we analyze the symmetry of SCOC in light of the second harmonic results, and discuss possible ground states that are consistent with the data.

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© 2021 American Physical Society. Received 12 March 2021; revised 4 June 2021; accepted 6 July 2021; published 19 July 2021. Work at Caltech was supported by an Army Research Office (ARO) PECASE award W911NF-17-1-0204. Work at Argonne was supported by the Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, US Department of Energy.

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Implications of second harmonic generation for hidden order in Sr2CuO2Cl2

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Army Research Office (ARO)
W911NF-17-1-0204
Department of Energy (DOE)

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