Scattering and pairing in cuprate superconductors

L Taillefer - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2010 - annualreviews.org
The origin of the exceptionally strong superconductivity of cuprates remains a subject of
debate after more than two decades of investigation. Here we follow a new lead: The onset …

Colloquium: Heavy-electron quantum criticality and single-particle spectroscopy

S Kirchner, S Paschen, Q Chen, S Wirth, D Feng… - Reviews of Modern …, 2020 - APS
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and scanning tunneling microscopy
(STM) have become indispensable tools in the study of correlated quantum materials. Both …

Superconductivity in an extreme strange metal

DH Nguyen, A Sidorenko, M Taupin, G Knebel… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Some of the highest-transition-temperature superconductors across various materials
classes exhibit linear-in-temperature 'strange metal'or 'Planckian'electrical resistivities in …

Solvable models of two-level systems coupled to itinerant electrons: Robust non-Fermi liquid and quantum critical pairing

E Tulipman, N Bashan, J Schmalian, E Berg - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Strange metal behavior is traditionally associated with an underlying putative quantum
critical point at zero temperature. However, in many correlated metals, eg, high-T c cuprate …

Unconventional superconductivity in heavy-fermion compounds

BD White, JD Thompson, MB Maple - Physica C: superconductivity and its …, 2015 - Elsevier
Over the past 35 years, research on unconventional superconductivity in heavy-fermion
systems has evolved from the surprising observations of unprecedented superconducting …

Frustration and the Kondo effect in heavy fermion materials

P Coleman, AH Nevidomskyy - Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 2010 - Springer
The observation of a separation between the antiferromagnetic phase boundary and the
small-large Fermi surface transition in recent experiments has led to the proposal that …

Electronic in-plane symmetry breaking at field-tuned quantum criticality in CeRhIn5

F Ronning, T Helm, KR Shirer, MD Bachmann… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Electronic nematic materials are characterized by a lowered symmetry of the electronic
system compared to the underlying lattice, in analogy to the directional alignment without …

Detaching the antiferromagnetic quantum critical point from the Fermi-surface reconstruction in YbRh2Si2

S Friedemann, T Westerkamp, M Brando, N Oeschler… - Nature Physics, 2009 - nature.com
A continuous phase transition driven to zero temperature by a non-thermal parameter, such
as pressure, terminates in a quantum critical point (QCP). At present, two main theoretical …

Tunable non-Fermi liquid phase from coupling to two-level systems

N Bashan, E Tulipman, J Schmalian, E Berg - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We study a controlled large-N theory of electrons coupled to dynamical two-level systems
(TLSs) via spatially random interactions. Such a physical situation arises when electrons …

Progress in heavy-fermion superconductivity: Ce115 and related materials

J D. Thompson, Z Fisk - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2011 - journals.jps.jp
Ce115 and related Ce compounds are particularly suited to detailed studies of the interplay
of antiferromagnetic order, unconventional superconductivity and quantum criticality due to …