Doping a Mott insulator: Physics of high-temperature superconductivity

PA Lee, N Nagaosa, XG Wen - Reviews of modern physics, 2006 - APS
This article reviews the physics of high-temperature superconductors from the point of view
of the doping of a Mott insulator. The basic electronic structure of cuprates is reviewed …

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 …

Evidence for stripe correlations of spins and holes in copper oxide superconductors

JM Tranquada, BJ Sternlieb, JD Axe, Y Nakamura… - nature, 1995 - nature.com
ONE of the long-standing mysteries associated with the high-temperature copper oxide
superconductors concerns the anomalous suppression1 of superconductivity in La2 …

Effect of a nonzero temperature on quantum critical points in itinerant fermion systems

AJ Millis - Physical Review B, 1993 - APS
I reexamine the work of Hertz on quantum phase transitions in itinerant fermion systems. I
determine when it is permissible to integrate out the fermions and analyze the critical …

Imaging Quasiparticle Interference in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ

JE Hoffman, K McElroy, DH Lee, KM Lang, H Eisaki… - Science, 2002 - science.org
Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of the high-T c superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+
δreveals weak, incommensurate, spatial modulations in the tunneling conductance. Images …

Coexistence of, and Competition between, Superconductivity and Charge-Stripe Order in

JM Tranquada, JD Axe, N Ichikawa… - Physical Review Letters, 1997 - APS
Previously we have presented evidence for stripe order of holes and spins in La 1. 6− x Nd
0.4 Sr x CuO 4 with x= 0.12. Here we show, via neutron diffraction measurements of …

Neutron-scattering study of stripe-phase order of holes and spins in

JM Tranquada, JD Axe, N Ichikawa, Y Nakamura… - Physical Review B, 1996 - APS
We present a neutron diffraction study of charge and spin order within the CuO 2 planes of
La 1.48 Nd 0.4 Sr 0.12 CuO 4, a crystal in which superconductivity is anomalously …

Low-energy properties of fermions with singular interactions

BL Altshuler, LB Ioffe, AJ Millis - Physical Review B, 1994 - APS
We calculate the fermion Green function and particle-hole susceptibilities for a degenerate
two-dimensional fermion system with a singular gauge interaction. We show that this is a …

A survey of the Van Hove scenario for high-Tc superconductivity with special emphasis on pseudogaps and striped phases

RS Markiewicz - Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 1997 - Elsevier
The Van Hove singularity (VHS) provides a paradigm for the study of the role of peaks in the
density of states (dos) on electronic properties. More importantly, it appears to play a major …

Stripe order, depinning, and fluctuations in and

M Fujita, H Goka, K Yamada, JM Tranquada… - Physical Review B …, 2004 - APS
We present a neutron scattering study of stripe correlations measured on a single crystal of
La 1.875 Ba 0.125 CuO 4. Within the low-temperature-tetragonal (LTT) phase, superlattice …