Angle-resolved photoemission studies of quantum materials

JA Sobota, Y He, ZX Shen - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
The physics of quantum materials is dictated by many-body interactions and mathematical
concepts such as symmetry and topology that have transformed our understanding of matter …

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 …

Angle-resolved photoemission studies of the cuprate superconductors

A Damascelli, Z Hussain, ZX Shen - Reviews of modern physics, 2003 - APS
The last decade witnessed significant progress in angle-resolved photoemission
spectroscopy (ARPES) and its applications. Today, ARPES experiments with 2-meV energy …

Energy gaps in high-transition-temperature cuprate superconductors

M Hashimoto, IM Vishik, RH He, TP Devereaux… - Nature Physics, 2014 - nature.com
The spectral energy gap is an important signature that defines states of quantum matter:
insulators, density waves and superconductors have very different gap structures. The …

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 …

Evidence for ubiquitous strong electron–phonon coupling in high-temperature superconductors

A Lanzara, PV Bogdanov, XJ Zhou, SA Kellar, DL Feng… - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
Coupling between electrons and phonons (lattice vibrations) drives the formation of the
electron pairs responsible for conventional superconductivity. The lack of direct evidence for …

Quantum-critical theory of the spin-fermion model and its application to cuprates: Normal state analysis

A Abanov, AV Chubukov, J Schmalian - Advances in Physics, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
We present the full analysis of the normal state properties of the spin-fermion model near the
antiferromagnetic instability in two dimensions. The model describes low-energy fermions …

The physics behind high-temperature superconducting cuprates: the 'plain vanilla'version of RVB

PW Anderson, PA Lee, M Randeria… - Journal of Physics …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the first theoretical proposals for understanding high-temperature superconductivity
in the cuprates was Anderson's RVB theory using a Gutzwiller projected BCS wavefunction …

The pseudogap: friend or foe of high T c ?

MR Norman, D Pines, C Kallin - Advances in Physics, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Although nineteen years have passed since the discovery of high temperature cuprate
superconductivity, there is still no consensus on its physical origin. This is in large part …

Two gaps make a high-temperature superconductor?

S Hüfner, MA Hossain, A Damascelli… - Reports on Progress in …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the keys to the high-temperature superconductivity puzzle is the identification of the
energy scales associated with the emergence of a coherent condensate of superconducting …