Graphene bilayers with a twist

EY Andrei, AH MacDonald - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Near a magic twist angle, bilayer graphene transforms from a weakly correlated Fermi liquid
to a strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system with properties that are …

Cuprate superconductors as viewed through a striped lens

JM Tranquada - Advances in Physics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Understanding the electron pairing in hole-doped cuprate superconductors has been a
challenge, in particular because the “normal” state from which it evolves is unprecedented …

Charge correlations in cuprate superconductors

SM Hayden, JM Tranquada - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
High-temperature superconductivity, with transition temperatures up to≈ 134 K at ambient
pressure, occurs in layered cuprate compounds. The conducting CuO2 planes, which are …

Oxygen hole content, charge-transfer gap, covalency, and cuprate superconductivity

N Kowalski, SS Dash, P Sémon… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Experiments have shown that the families of cuprate superconductors that have the largest
transition temperature at optimal doping also have the largest oxygen hole content at that …

Charge density waves in cuprate superconductors beyond the critical doping

H Miao, G Fabbris, RJ Koch, DG Mazzone… - npj Quantum …, 2021 - nature.com
The unconventional normal-state properties of the cuprates are often discussed in terms of
emergent electronic order that onsets below a putative critical doping of xc≈ 0.19. Charge …

Where is the quantum spin nematic?

S Jiang, J Romhányi, SR White, ME Zhitomirsky… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We provide strong evidence of the spin-nematic state in a paradigmatic ferro-
antiferromagnetic J 1-J 2 model using analytical and density-matrix renormalization group …

Inhomogeneity-induced time-reversal symmetry breaking in cuprate twist junctions

AC Yuan, Y Vituri, E Berg, B Spivak, SA Kivelson - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The lowest-order Josephson coupling, J 1 (θ) cos (ϕ), between two d-wave superconductors
with a phase difference ϕ across the junction vanishes when their relative orientation is …

Divergent nematic susceptibility near the pseudogap critical point in a cuprate superconductor

K Ishida, S Hosoi, Y Teramoto, T Usui… - Journal of the Physical …, 2020 - journals.jps.jp
In strongly correlated materials, superconductivity is often found near a magnetic quantum
critical point (QCP) where a magnetic phase vanishes and its fluctuations proliferate …

Atomic scale control and visualization of topological quantum phase transition in π‐conjugated polymers driven by their length

H González‐Herrero, JI Mendieta‐Moreno… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum phase transitions (QPTs) driven by quantum fluctuations are transitions between
distinct quantum phases of matter. At present, they are poorly understood and not readily …

Classification of electronic nematicity in three-dimensional crystals and quasicrystals

M Hecker, A Rastogi, DF Agterberg, RM Fernandes - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Electronic nematic order has been reported in a rich landscape of materials, encompassing
not only a range of intertwined correlated and topological phenomena but also different …