Second harmonic generation as a probe of broken mirror symmetry

The notion of spontaneous symmetry breaking has been used to describe phase transitions in a variety of physical systems. In crystalline solids, the breaking of certain symmetries, such as mirror symmetry, is difficult to detect unambiguously. Using 1T-TaS2, we demonstrate here that rotational-aniso...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fichera, Bryan T., Kogar, Anshul, Ye, Linda, Gokce, Bilal, Zong, A, Checkelsky, Joseph, Gedik, Nuh
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society (APS) 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127814