TY - JOUR
T1 - The Physics of Pair-Density Waves
T2 - Cuprate Superconductors and beyond
AU - Agterberg, Daniel F.
AU - Davis, J. C.Séamus
AU - Edkins, Stephen D.
AU - Fradkin, Eduardo
AU - Van Harlingen, Dale J.
AU - Kivelson, Steven A.
AU - Lee, Patrick A.
AU - Radzihovsky, Leo
AU - Tranquada, John M.
AU - Wang, Yuxuan
N1 - Funding Information:
J.C.S.D. acknowledges support from Science Foundation Ireland under Award SFI 17/RP/5445 and from the European Research Council (ERC) under Award DLV-788932. J.C.S.D and S.D.E acknowledge support, and the funding to carry out STM/SJTM studies of cuprate PDWs, from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation EPiQS Initiative through Grant GBMF4544. S.D.E. acknowledges support from the Karel Urbanek Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University. S.A.K. was supported in part by National Science Foundation (NSF) grant DMR-1608055. E.F. was supported in part by NSF grant DMR-1725401. This work was funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, US Department of Energy (DOE) under contracts DE-SC0012368 (D.J.V.H., E.F.). D.J.V.H. was supported in part by NSF grant DMR-1710437. P.A.L. acknowledges support by DOE grant DE-FG02-03ER46076. Y.W. was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation EPiQS Initiative through the grant GBMF 4305. L.R. was supported by the Simons Investigator Award from The James Simons Foundation. J.M.T. was supported at Brookhaven by DOE Contract No. DE-SC0012704. This research was supported in part by the NSF under Grant No. NSF PHY-1748958 at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and we thank KITP for its hospitality
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PY - 2020/3/10
Y1 - 2020/3/10
N2 - We review the physics of pair-density wave (PDW) superconductors. We begin with a macroscopic description that emphasizes order induced by PDW states, such as charge-density wave, and discuss related vestigial states that emerge as a consequence of partial melting of the PDW order. We review and critically discuss the mounting experimental evidence for such PDW order in the cuprate superconductors, the status of the theoretical microscopic description of such order, and the current debate on whether the PDW is a mother order or another competing order in the cuprates. In addition, we give an overview of the weak coupling version of PDW order, Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov states, in the context of cold atom systems, unconventional superconductors, and noncentrosymmetric and Weyl materials.
AB - We review the physics of pair-density wave (PDW) superconductors. We begin with a macroscopic description that emphasizes order induced by PDW states, such as charge-density wave, and discuss related vestigial states that emerge as a consequence of partial melting of the PDW order. We review and critically discuss the mounting experimental evidence for such PDW order in the cuprate superconductors, the status of the theoretical microscopic description of such order, and the current debate on whether the PDW is a mother order or another competing order in the cuprates. In addition, we give an overview of the weak coupling version of PDW order, Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov states, in the context of cold atom systems, unconventional superconductors, and noncentrosymmetric and Weyl materials.
KW - Finite-momentum condensates
KW - Induced orders
KW - Intertwined orders
KW - Vortex states
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U2 - 10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031119-050711
DO - 10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031119-050711
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85082132219
SN - 1947-5454
VL - 11
SP - 231
EP - 270
JO - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics
JF - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics
ER -