The physics of pair-density waves: cuprate superconductors and beyond

DF Agterberg, JCS Davis, SD Edkins… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
We review the physics of pair-density wave (PDW) superconductors. We begin with a
macroscopic description that emphasizes order induced by PDW states, such as charge …

A common thread: The pairing interaction for unconventional superconductors

DJ Scalapino - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2012 - APS
The structures, the phase diagrams, and the appearance of a neutron resonance signaling
an unconventional superconducting state provide phenomenological evidence relating the …

Direct observation of competition between superconductivity and charge density wave order in YBa2Cu3O6.67

J Chang, E Blackburn, AT Holmes, NB Christensen… - Nature Physics, 2012 - nature.com
Superconductivity often emerges in the proximity of, or in competition with, symmetry-
breaking ground states such as antiferromagnetism or charge density waves,,,,(CDW). A …

Resonant x-ray scattering studies of charge order in cuprates

R Comin, A Damascelli - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Intertwined vestigial order in quantum materials: Nematicity and beyond

RM Fernandes, PP Orth… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
A hallmark of the phase diagrams of quantum materials is the existence of multiple
electronic ordered states, which, in many cases, are not independent competing phases, but …

Detection of a Cooper-pair density wave in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x

MH Hamidian, SD Edkins, SH Joo, A Kostin, H Eisaki… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The quantum condensate of Cooper pairs forming a superconductor was originally
conceived as being translationally invariant. In theory, however, pairs can exist with finite …

Colloquium: Theory of intertwined orders in high temperature superconductors

E Fradkin, SA Kivelson, JM Tranquada - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
The electronic phase diagrams of many highly correlated systems, and, in particular, the
cuprate high temperature superconductors, are complex, with many different phases …

Dimensionality crossover to a two-dimensional vestigial nematic state from a three-dimensional antiferromagnet in a honeycomb van der Waals magnet

Z Sun, G Ye, C Zhou, M Huang, N Huang, X Xu, Q Li… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
The effects of fluctuations and disorder, which are substantially enhanced in reduced
dimensionalities, can play a crucial role in producing non-trivial phases of matter such as …

Amperean pairing and the pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors

PA Lee - Physical Review X, 2014 - APS
The enigmatic pseudogap phase in underdoped cuprate high-T c superconductors has long
been recognized as a central puzzle of the T c problem. Recent data show that the …

Nematic Fermi fluids in condensed matter physics

E Fradkin, SA Kivelson, MJ Lawler… - Annu. Rev. Condens …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Correlated electron fluids can exhibit a startling array of complex phases, among which one
of the more surprising is the electron nematic, a translationally invariant metallic phase with …