Cuprates exhibit exceptionally strong superconductivity. To understand why, it is essential to
elucidate the nature of the electronic interactions that cause pairing. Superconductivity …

The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in the copper oxides in 1986 triggered
a huge amount of innovative scientific inquiry. In the almost three decades since, much has …

A hallmark of many unconventional superconductors is the presence of many-body
interactions that give rise to broken-symmetry states intertwined with superconductivity …

In the last two decades non-equilibrium spectroscopies have evolved from avant-garde
studies to crucial tools for expanding our understanding of the physics of strongly correlated …

Terahertz-frequency optical pulses can resonantly drive selected vibrational modes in solids
and deform their crystal structures,,. In complex oxides, this method has been used to melt …

X-ray techniques have been used for more than a century to study the atomic and electronic
structure in practically any type of material. The advent of correlated electron systems, in …

The pseudogap is a partial gap in the electronic density of states that opens in the normal
(non-superconducting) state of cuprate superconductors and whose origin is a long …

A long-standing controversial issue in the quest to understand the superconductivity in
cuprates is the nature of the enigmatic pseudogap region of the phase diagram. Especially …

The electronic phase diagrams of many highly correlated systems, and, in particular, the
cuprate high temperature superconductors, are complex, with many different phases …

High-temperature superconductivity, with transition temperatures up to≈ 134 K at ambient
pressure, occurs in layered cuprate compounds. The conducting CuO2 planes, which are …