How to detect fluctuating stripes in the high-temperature superconductors

SA Kivelson, IP Bindloss, E Fradkin, V Oganesyan… - Reviews of Modern …, 2003 - APS
This article discusses fluctuating order in a quantum disordered phase proximate to a
quantum critical point, with particular emphasis on fluctuating stripe order. Optimal strategies …

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 …

New “USD” Hamiltonians for the shell

BA Brown, WA Richter - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2006 - APS
We derive new Hamiltonians for the sd shell, USDA and USDB, based on a renormalized G
matrix with linear combinations of two-body matrix elements adjusted to fit a complete set of …

Electronic Liquid Crystal State in the High-Temperature Superconductor YBa2Cu3O6.45

V Hinkov, D Haug, B Fauqué, P Bourges, Y Sidis… - Science, 2008 - science.org
Electronic phases with symmetry properties matching those of conventional liquid crystals
have recently been discovered in transport experiments on semiconductor heterostructures …

Formation of a Nematic Fluid at High Fields in Sr3Ru2O7

RA Borzi, SA Grigera, J Farrell, RS Perry, SJS Lister… - Science, 2007 - science.org
In principle, a complex assembly of strongly interacting electrons can self-organize into a
wide variety of collective states, but relatively few such states have been identified in …

Phases intermediate between a two-dimensional electron liquid and Wigner crystal

B Spivak, SA Kivelson - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2004 - APS
We show that there can be no direct first-order transition between a Fermi liquid and an
insulating electronic (Wigner) crystalline phase in a clean two-dimensional electron gas in a …

Fermi liquid instabilities in the spin channel

C Wu, K Sun, E Fradkin, SC Zhang - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2007 - APS
We study the Fermi-surface instabilities of the Pomeranchuk type [Sov. Phys. JETP 8, 361
(1959)] in the spin-triplet channel with high orbital partial waves [F la (l> 0)]. The ordered …

Onset of intruder ground state in exotic isotopes and evolution of the shell gap

Y Utsuno, T Otsuka, T Glasmacher, T Mizusaki… - Physical Review C …, 2004 - APS
The onset of intruder ground states in Na isotopes is investigated by comparing
experimental data and shell-model calculations. This onset is one of the consequences of …

Evidence for a fractionally quantized Hall state with anisotropic longitudinal transport

J **a, JP Eisenstein, LN Pfeiffer, KW West - Nature Physics, 2011 - nature.com
At high magnetic fields, where the Fermi level lies in the N= 0 lowest Landau level (LL), a
clean two-dimensional electron system (2DES) shows numerous incompressible liquid …

Sign-reversal of the in-plane resistivity anisotropy in hole-doped iron pnictides

EC Blomberg, MA Tanatar, RM Fernandes… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Unconventional superconductivity usually originates from several strongly coupled degrees
of freedom, such as magnetic, charge and elastic. A highly anisotropic electronic phase, not …