Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models and beyond: Window into non-Fermi liquids

D Chowdhury, A Georges, O Parcollet… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
This is a review of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model of compressible quantum many-
body systems without quasiparticle excitations, and its connections to various theoretical …

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 …

Microscopic evolution of doped Mott insulators from polaronic metal to Fermi liquid

J Koepsell, D Bourgund, P Sompet, S Hirthe, A Bohrdt… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The competition between antiferromagnetism and hole motion in two-dimensional Mott
insulators lies at the heart of a doping-dependent transition from an anomalous metal to a …

Chiral phonons in the pseudogap phase of cuprates

G Grissonnanche, S Thériault, A Gourgout… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
The nature of the pseudogap phase of cuprates remains a major puzzle,. One of its
signatures is a large negative thermal Hall conductivity, whose origin is as yet unknown …

Competing stripe and magnetic phases in the cuprates from first principles

Y Zhang, C Lane, JW Furness… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Realistic description of competing phases in complex quantum materials has proven
extremely challenging. For example, much of the existing density-functional-theory-based …

Charge density waves in cuprate superconductors beyond the critical doping

H Miao, G Fabbris, RJ Koch, DG Mazzone… - npj Quantum …, 2021 - nature.com
The unconventional normal-state properties of the cuprates are often discussed in terms of
emergent electronic order that onsets below a putative critical doping of xc≈ 0.19. Charge …

Magnetic dilution effect and topological phase transitions in

T Qian, YT Yao, C Hu, E Feng, H Cao, II Mazin… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
As the first intrinsic antiferromagnetic topological insulator, MnBi 2 Te 4 has provided a
material platform to realize various emergent phenomena arising from the interplay of …

From the pseudogap metal to the Fermi liquid using ancilla qubits

YH Zhang, S Sachdev - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
We propose a new parton theory of the hole-doped cuprates, describing the evolution from
the pseudogap metal with small Fermi surfaces to the conventional Fermi liquid with a large …

Resonant thermal Hall effect of phonons coupled to dynamical defects

H Guo, DG Joshi, S Sachdev - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
We present computations of the thermal Hall coefficient of phonons scattering off a defect
with multiple energy levels. Using a microscopic formulation based on the Kubo formula, we …

Fermi surface transformation at the pseudogap critical point of a cuprate superconductor

Y Fang, G Grissonnanche, A Legros, S Verret… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
The nature of the pseudogap phase remains a major puzzle in our understanding of cuprate
high-temperature superconductivity. Whether or not this metallic phase is defined by any of …