Colloquium: Theory of intertwined orders in high temperature superconductors
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- 26 May 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Reviews of Modern Physics
- Vol. 87 (2), 457-482
- https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.87.457
Abstract
The electronic phase diagrams of many highly correlated systems, and, in particular, the cuprate high temperature superconductors, are complex, with many different phases appearing with similar (sometimes identical) ordering temperatures even as material properties, such as dopant concentration, are varied over wide ranges. This complexity is sometimes referred to as “competing orders.” However, since the relation is intimate, and can even lead to the existence of new phases of matter such as the putative “pair-density wave,” the general relation is better thought of in terms of “intertwined orders.” Some of the experiments in the cuprates which suggest that essential aspects of the physics are reflected in the intertwining of multiple orders, not just in the nature of each order by itself, are selectively analyzed. Several theoretical ideas concerning the origin and implications of this complexity are also summarized and critiqued.Other Versions
Funding Information
- National Science Foundation (DMR-1064319, DMR-1408713, DMR-1265593)
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara (PHY11-25915)
- U.S. Department of Energy (DE-SC0012368, DE-AC02-76SF00515, DE-SC00112704)
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