Hidden order in the cuprates

By S. Chakravarty, R. Laughlin, D. Morr, C. Nayak. 2000

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We propose that the enigmatic pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors is characterized by a hidden broken symmetry of ${d}_{{x}^{2}\ensuremath{-}{y}^{2}}$-type. The transition to this state is rounded by disorder, but in the limit that the disorder is made sufficiently small, the pseudogap crossover should reveal itself to be such a transition. The ordered state breaks time-reversal, translational, and rotational symmetries, but it is invariant under the combination of any two. We discuss these ideas in the context of ten specific experimental properties of the cuprates, and make several predictions, including the existence of an as-yet undetected metal-metal transition under the superconducting dome.

Subfields: Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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Citations in the corpus

• The Hubbard Model (2021, background): “Two novel classes of broken symmetry phases have been proposed as candidate orders to account for some observed anomalies in the cuprate high temperature superconductors: states with orbital loop current order (156, 157) and pair-density-wave states (158, 159, 160) with spatially modulated supercond”
• Angle-resolved photoemission studies of the cuprate superconductors (2002, background): “12See, for example, Chakravarty et al. (1989, 2001); Varma et al. (1989); Littlewood and Varma (1991); Sachdev and Ye (1992); Emery and Kivelson (1993b); Sokol and Pines (1993); Castellani et al. (1995); Varma (1997).”
• Defects in correlated metals and superconductors (2007, background): “…of a hidden order disconnected from superconductivity such as a spin ordering ( Resonating Valence Bond (RVB) (Anderson, 1997) or d-density wave (ddW) (Chakravarty et al., 2001)), or involving orbital currents (Varma, 2006), or a charge segregation into stripe order (Carlson et al., 2002).”
• Progress and perspectives on electron-doped cuprates (2009, methodology): “Although it is the natural choice, due to the close proximity of antiferromagnetism and superconductivity, this low-energy scattering channel need not be antiferromagnetic for the role played by the AFBZ boundary to hold; other possibilities such as d-density wave exist (Chakravarty et al., 2001).”