Topological order, emergent gauge fields, and Fermi surface reconstruction

S Sachdev - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This review describes how topological order associated with the presence of emergent
gauge fields can reconstruct Fermi surfaces of metals, even in the absence of translational …

Quantum magnetism and criticality

S Sachdev - Nature Physics, 2008 - nature.com
Magnetic insulators have proved to be fertile ground for studying new types of quantum
many-body state, and I survey recent experimental and theoretical examples. The insights …

Quantum phase transitions

S Sachdev - Physics world, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
NATURE abounds with phase transitions. The boiling and freezing of water are everyday
examples of phase transitions, as are more exotic processes such as superconductivity and …

Physics of three-dimensional bosonic topological insulators: Surface-deconfined criticality and quantized magnetoelectric effect

A Vishwanath, T Senthil - Physical Review X, 2013 - APS
We discuss physical properties of “integer” topological phases of bosons in D= 3+ 1
dimensions, protected by internal symmetries like time reversal and/or charge conservation …

Non-Fermi liquids as ersatz Fermi liquids: general constraints on compressible metals

DV Else, R Thorngren, T Senthil - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
A system with charge conservation and lattice translation symmetry has a well-defined filling
ν, which is a real number representing the average charge per unit cell. We show that if ν is …

A model of d-wave superconductivity, antiferromagnetism, and charge order on the square lattice

M Christos, ZX Luo, H Shackleton… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We describe the confining instabilities of a proposed quantum spin liquid underlying the
pseudogap metal state of the hole-doped cuprates. The spin liquid can be described by a …

Nernst effect in high- superconductors

Y Wang, L Li, NP Ong - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2006 - APS
The observation of a large Nernst signal e N in an extended region above the critical
temperature T c in hole-doped cuprates provides evidence that vortex excitations survive …

Theory of the Nernst effect near quantum phase transitions in condensed matter and in dyonic black holes

SA Hartnoll, PK Kovtun, M Müller, S Sachdev - Physical Review B …, 2007 - APS
We present a general hydrodynamic theory of transport in the vicinity of superfluid-insulator
transitions in two spatial dimensions described by “Lorentz”-invariant quantum critical points …

Striped superconductors: how spin, charge and superconducting orders intertwine in the cuprates

E Berg, E Fradkin, SA Kivelson… - New Journal of …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent transport experiments in the original cuprate high temperature superconductor, La
2− x Ba x CuO 4, have revealed a remarkable sequence of transitions and crossovers that …

Phase transitions out of quantum Hall states in moiré materials

XY Song, YH Zhang, T Senthil - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Motivated by the recent experimental breakthroughs in observing fractional quantum
anomalous Hall (FQAH) states in moiré materials, we propose and study various …