Absence of a bulk thermodynamic phase transition to a density wave phase in

F Theuss, A Shragai, G Grissonnanche, L Peralta… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Competing and intertwined orders are ubiquitous in strongly correlated electron systems,
such as the charge, spin, and superconducting orders in the high-T c cuprates. Recent …

Absence of bulk charge density wave order in the normal state of UTe2

CS Kengle, J Vonka, S Francoual, J Chang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A spatially modulated superconducting state, known as pair density wave (PDW), is a
tantalizing state of matter with unique properties. Recent scanning tunneling microscopy …

Pd Correlation-Determined Charge Order Stiffness and Corresponding Quantum Melting in Monolayer 1T-TiSe2

CY Liu, M Zhao, Z Wang, CL Gao - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
1T-TiSe2, a promising candidate of the sought-after excitonic insulator, possesses an
enigmatic charge density wave (CDW) order of which the microscopic origin is formidable to …

Connection between f-electron correlations and magnetic excitations in UTe2

T Halloran, P Czajka, G Saucedo Salas… - npj Quantum …, 2025 - nature.com
The detailed anisotropic dispersion of the low-temperature, low-energy magnetic excitations
of the candidate spin-triplet superconductor UTe2 is revealed using inelastic neutron …

Atomic-scale tracking of topological defect motion and incommensurate charge order melting

N Schnitzer, BH Goodge, G Powers, J Kim, SW Cheong… - Physical Review X, 2025 - APS
Charge order pervades the phase diagrams of quantum materials where it competes with
superconducting and magnetic phases, hosts electronic phase transitions and topological …

Probing p-wave superconductivity in UTe2 via point-contact junctions

H Yoon, YS Eo, J Park, JA Horn, RG Dorman… - npj Quantum …, 2024 - nature.com
Uranium ditelluride (UTe2) is the strongest contender to date for ap-wave superconductor in
bulk form. Here we perform a spectroscopic study of the ambient pressure superconducting …

Static and dynamic topological defects in the domain textures in the helical antiferromagnet

N Khan, A Barbour, J Yang, SW Cheong, C Mazzoli… - Physical Review B, 2025 - APS
Real-space Bragg coherent x-ray-diffractive imaging unveils the formation of bubble and
stripe antiferromagnetic (AFM) phase domains on the surface of Ni 2 CoTeO 6 single crystal …

Electronic structure of topological defects in the pair density wave superconductor

M Rosales, E Fradkin - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Pair density waves (PDWs) are a inhomogeneous superconducting states whose Cooper
pairs possess a finite momentum resulting in a oscillatory gap in space, even in the absence …

Frustrated charge density wave and quasi-long-range bond-orientational order in the magnetic kagome FeGe

S Blanco-Canosa, D Subires, A Kar, A Korshunov… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
The intrinsic frustrated nature of a kagome lattice is amenable to the realization of exotic
phases of matter, such as quantum spin liquids or spin ices, and more recently the multiple-q …

Cutting Through the Noise in Quantum Materials With Ultrasound

F Theuss - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Strong interactions between electrons are the foundation of a myriad of exciting phenomena
in condensed matter physics. In this thesis, we investigated two such cases—topological …