The physics of pair-density waves: cuprate superconductors and beyond

DF Agterberg, JCS Davis, SD Edkins… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
We review the physics of pair-density wave (PDW) superconductors. We begin with a
macroscopic description that emphasizes order induced by PDW states, such as charge …

Colloquium: Theory of intertwined orders in high temperature superconductors

E Fradkin, SA Kivelson, JM Tranquada - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
The electronic phase diagrams of many highly correlated systems, and, in particular, the
cuprate high temperature superconductors, are complex, with many different phases …

: Phonon bands, localized flat-band magnetism, models, and chemical analysis

Y Jiang, SB Lee, J Herzog-Arbeitman, J Yu, X Feng… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
In a series of recent reports, doped lead apatite (LK-99) has been proposed as a candidate
ambient temperature and pressure superconductor. However, from both an experimental …

Colloquium: Anomalous metals: Failed superconductors

A Kapitulnik, SA Kivelson, B Spivak - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
The observation of metallic ground states in a variety of two-dimensional electronic systems
poses a fundamental challenge for the theory of electron fluids. Here evidence is analyzed …

Amperean pairing and the pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors

PA Lee - Physical Review X, 2014 - APS
The enigmatic pseudogap phase in underdoped cuprate high-T c superconductors has long
been recognized as a central puzzle of the T c problem. Recent data show that the …

Uniaxial pressure control of competing orders in a high-temperature superconductor

HH Kim, SM Souliou, ME Barber, E Lefrançois… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Cuprates exhibit antiferromagnetic, charge density wave (CDW), and high-temperature
superconducting ground states that can be tuned by means of doping and external magnetic …

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 …

Magnetic field–induced pair density wave state in the cuprate vortex halo

SD Edkins, A Kostin, K Fujita, AP Mackenzie, H Eisaki… - Science, 2019 - science.org
High magnetic fields suppress cuprate superconductivity to reveal an unusual density wave
(DW) state coexisting with unexplained quantum oscillations. Although routinely labeled a …

Pair-density waves, charge-density waves, and vortices in high- cuprates

Z Dai, YH Zhang, T Senthil, PA Lee - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
A recent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiment reports the observation of a
charge-density wave (CDW) with a period of approximately 8a in the halo region …

Disorder raises the critical temperature of a cuprate superconductor

M Leroux, V Mishra, JPC Ruff… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
With the discovery of charge-density waves (CDWs) in most members of the cuprate high-
temperature superconductors, the interplay between superconductivity and CDWs has …