Impurity-induced states in conventional and unconventional superconductors

AV Balatsky, I Vekhter, JX Zhu - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2006 - APS
This review presents recent developments in the understanding of how impurities influence
the electronic states in the bulk properties of superconductors. The focus is on …

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of high-temperature superconductors

Ø Fischer, M Kugler, I Maggio-Aprile, C Berthod… - Reviews of Modern …, 2007 - APS
Tunneling spectroscopy has played a central role in the experimental verification of the
microscopic theory of superconductivity in classical superconductors. Initial attempts to apply …

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 …

Charge-density-wave origin of cuprate checkerboard visualized by scanning tunnelling microscopy

WD Wise, MC Boyer, K Chatterjee, T Kondo… - Nature physics, 2008 - nature.com
One of the main challenges in understanding high-T c superconductivity is to disentangle
the rich variety of states of matter that may coexist, cooperate or compete with d-wave …

Colloquium: Order and quantum phase transitions in the cuprate superconductors

S Sachdev - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2003 - APS
It is now widely accepted that the cuprate superconductors are characterized by a long-
range order similar to that present in the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory, that …

Quasiparticle scattering interference in high-temperature superconductors

QH Wang, DH Lee - Physical Review B, 2003 - APS
We propose that the energy-dependent spatial modulation of the local density of states seen
by Hoffman et al.[Science 297, 1148 (2002)] is due to the scattering interference of …

theory of antiferromagnetism and superconductivity

E Demler, W Hanke, SC Zhang - Reviews of modern physics, 2004 - APS
Antiferromagnetism and superconductivity are both fundamental and common states of
matter. In many strongly correlated systems, including the high-T c cuprates, the heavy …

Evidence for unusual superconducting correlations coexisting with stripe order in

JM Tranquada, GD Gu, M Hücker, Q Jie, HJ Kang… - Physical Review B …, 2008 - APS
We present new x-ray and neutron-scattering measurements of stripe order in La 1.875 Ba
0.125 CuO 4, along with low-field susceptibility, thermal conductivity, and specific-heat data …

theory of underdoped high-temperature superconductors

IF Herbut - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
The low-energy theory of d-wave quasiparticles coupled to fluctuating vortex loops that
describes the loss of phase coherence in a two-dimensional d-wave superconductor at T= 0 …

Putting competing orders in their place near the Mott transition

L Balents, L Bartosch, A Burkov, S Sachdev… - Physical Review B …, 2005 - APS
We describe the localization transition of superfluids on two-dimensional lattices into
commensurate Mott insulators with average particle density p∕ q (p, q relatively prime …