From quantum matter to high-temperature superconductivity in copper oxides

B Keimer, SA Kivelson, MR Norman, S Uchida… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
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 …

Angle-resolved photoemission studies of the cuprate superconductors

A Damascelli, Z Hussain, ZX Shen - Reviews of modern physics, 2003 - APS
The last decade witnessed significant progress in angle-resolved photoemission
spectroscopy (ARPES) and its applications. Today, ARPES experiments with 2-meV energy …

Microscopic electronic inhomogeneity in the high-Tc superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x

SH Pan, JP O'neal, RL Badzey, C Chamon, H Ding… - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
The parent compounds of the copper oxide high-transition-temperature (high-T c)
superconductors are unusual insulators (so-called Mott insulators). Superconductivity arises …

Colloquium: Linear in temperature resistivity and associated mysteries including high temperature superconductivity

CM Varma - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
Immediately after the discovery of high temperature superconductivity in the cuprates in
1987, properties in the metallic state above T c were discovered that violated the reigning …

Quantum-critical theory of the spin-fermion model and its application to cuprates: Normal state analysis

A Abanov, AV Chubukov, J Schmalian - Advances in Physics, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
We present the full analysis of the normal state properties of the spin-fermion model near the
antiferromagnetic instability in two dimensions. The model describes low-energy fermions …

Flat bands, strange metals and the Kondo effect

JG Checkelsky, BA Bernevig, P Coleman, Q Si… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Flat-band materials such as the kagome metals or moiré superlattices are of intense current
interest. Flat bands can result from the electron motion on numerous (special) lattices and …

Quantum theory of a nematic Fermi fluid

V Oganesyan, SA Kivelson, E Fradkin - Physical Review B, 2001 - APS
We develop a microscopic theory of the electronic nematic phase proximate to an isotropic
Fermi liquid in both two and three dimensions. Explicit expressions are obtained for the …

Experimental Realization of Type-II Dirac Fermions in a Superconductor

HJ Noh, J Jeong, EJ Cho, K Kim, BI Min, BG Park - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
A Dirac fermion in a topological Dirac semimetal is a quadruple-degenerate quasiparticle
state with a relativistic linear dispersion. Breaking either time-reversal or inversion symmetry …

Cuprate superconductors as viewed through a striped lens

JM Tranquada - Advances in Physics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Understanding the electron pairing in hole-doped cuprate superconductors has been a
challenge, in particular because the “normal” state from which it evolves is unprecedented …

Superconductivity and non-Fermi liquid behavior near a nematic quantum critical point

S Lederer, Y Schattner, E Berg… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Using determinantal quantum Monte Carlo, we compute the properties of a lattice model
with spin 1 2 itinerant electrons tuned through a quantum phase transition to an Ising …