The remarkable underlying ground states of cuprate superconductors

C Proust, L Taillefer - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Cuprates exhibit exceptionally strong superconductivity. To understand why, it is essential to
elucidate the nature of the electronic interactions that cause pairing. Superconductivity …

Anomalies in the pseudogap phase of the cuprates: competing ground states and the role of umklapp scattering

NJ Robinson, PD Johnson, TM Rice… - Reports on Progress in …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past two decades, advances in computational algorithms have revealed a curious
property of the two-dimensional Hubbard model (and related theories) with hole doping: the …

Scale-invariant magnetoresistance in a cuprate superconductor

P Giraldo-Gallo, JA Galvis, Z Stegen, KA Modic… - Science, 2018 - science.org
The anomalous metallic state in the high-temperature superconducting cuprates is masked
by superconductivity near a quantum critical point. Applying high magnetic fields to suppress …

Seebeck coefficient in a cuprate superconductor: particle-hole asymmetry in the strange metal phase and Fermi surface transformation in the pseudogap phase

A Gourgout, G Grissonnanche, F Laliberté, A Ataei… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
We report measurements of the Seebeck effect in both the ab plane (S a) and along the c
axis (S c) of the cuprate superconductor La 1.6-x Nd 0.4 Sr x CuO 4 (Nd-LSCO), performed …

Doping the holographic Mott insulator

T Andrade, A Krikun, K Schalm, J Zaanen - Nature physics, 2018 - nature.com
Mott insulators form because of strong electron repulsions and are at the heart of strongly
correlated electron physics. Conventionally these are understood as classical 'traffic jams' of …

Longitudinal and anomalous Hall conductivity of a general two-band model

J Mitscherling - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We derive and analyze the longitudinal and the anomalous Hall conductivity for a general
momentum-block-diagonal two-band model. This model captures a broad spectrum of …

Pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors confined by Fermi surface topology

N Doiron-Leyraud, O Cyr-Choinière, S Badoux… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The properties of cuprate high-temperature superconductors are largely shaped by
competing phases whose nature is often a mystery. Chiefly among them is the pseudogap …

Correlation between scale-invariant normal-state resistivity and superconductivity in an electron-doped cuprate

T Sarkar, PR Mandal, NR Poniatowski, MK Chan… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
An understanding of the normal state in the high-temperature superconducting cuprates is
crucial to the ultimate understanding of the long-standing problem of the origin of the …

Carrier density crossover and quasiparticle mass enhancement in a doped 5d Mott insulator

YT Hsu, A Rydh, M Berben, C Duffy, A de la Torre… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
High-temperature superconductivity in cuprates emerges upon doping the parent Mott
insulator. Key features of the low-doped cuprate superconductors include an effective carrier …

Reconciling scaling of the optical conductivity of cuprate superconductors with Planckian resistivity and specific heat

B Michon, C Berthod, CW Rischau, A Ataei… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Materials tuned to a quantum critical point display universal scaling properties as a function
of temperature T and frequency ω. A long-standing puzzle regarding cuprate …