Lattice symmetry breaking in cuprate superconductors: stripes, nematics, and superconductivity

M Vojta - Advances in Physics, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
This article gives an overview of both theoretical and experimental developments
concerning states with lattice symmetry breaking in the cuprate high-temperature …

Manifesto for a higher Tc

DN Basov, AV Chubukov - Nature Physics, 2011 - nature.com
The term'high-temperature superconductor'used to refer only to copper-based compounds—
now, iron-based pnictides have entered the frame. The comparison of these two types of …

Stripe order enhanced superconductivity in the Hubbard model

HC Jiang, SA Kivelson - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Unidirectional (“stripe”) charge density wave order has now been established as a
ubiquitous feature in the phase diagram of the cuprate high-temperature superconductors …

Correlated disorder as a way towards robust superconductivity

VD Neverov, AE Lukyanov, AV Krasavin… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Ordinary superconductors are widely assumed insensitive to small concentrations of random
nonmagnetic impurities, whereas strong disorder suppresses superconductivity and even …

Geometry dependence of the sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo simulations

VI Iglovikov, E Khatami, RT Scalettar - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
The sign problem is the fundamental limitation to quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the
statistical mechanics of interacting fermions. Determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) is …

Enhancing superconductivity by disorder

MN Gastiasoro, BM Andersen - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We study two mechanisms for enhancing the superconducting mean-field transition
temperature T c by nonmagnetic disorder in both conventional (sign-preserving gaps) and …

Enhanced amplitude for superconductivity due to spectrum-wide wave function criticality in quasiperiodic and power-law random hopping models

X Zhang, MS Foster - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We study the interplay of superconductivity and a wide spectrum of critical (multifractal) wave
functions (“spectrum-wide quantum criticality,” SWQC) in the one-dimensional Aubry-André …

Route to high-temperature superconductivity in composite systems

E Berg, D Orgad, SA Kivelson - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2008 - APS
Apparently, some form of local superconducting pairing persists up to temperatures well
above the maximum observed T c in underdoped cuprates; ie, T c is suppressed due to the …

Enhanced Superconductivity in Superlattices of High- Cuprates

S Okamoto, TA Maier - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
The electronic properties of multilayers of strongly correlated models for cuprate
superconductors are investigated using cluster dynamical mean-field techniques. We focus …

Degenerate plaquette physics as key ingredient of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates

M Danilov, EGCP van Loon, S Brener, S Iskakov… - npj Quantum …, 2022 - nature.com
We study the physics of high-temperature cuprate superconductors starting from the highly
degenerate four-site plaquette of the t− t′− U Hubbard model as a reference system. The …