Stranger than metals

PW Phillips, NE Hussey, P Abbamonte - Science, 2022 - science.org
In traditional metals, the temperature (T) dependence of electrical resistivity vanishes at low
or high T, albeit for different reasons. Here, we review a class of materials, known as …

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 …

Incoherent transport across the strange-metal regime of overdoped cuprates

J Ayres, M Berben, M Čulo, YT Hsu, E van Heumen… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Strange metals possess highly unconventional electrical properties, such as a linear-in-
temperature resistivity,,,,–, an inverse Hall angle that varies as temperature squared,–and a …

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 …

Topological Mott insulator at quarter filling in the interacting Haldane model

P Mai, BE Feldman, PW Phillips - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
While the recent advances in topology have led to a classification scheme for electronic
bands described by the standard theory of metals, a similar scheme has not emerged for …

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 …

Quenched nematic criticality and two superconducting domes in an iron-based superconductor

P Reiss, D Graf, AA Haghighirad, W Knafo, L Drigo… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
The nematic electronic state and its associated critical fluctuations have emerged as a
potential candidate for the superconducting pairing in various unconventional …

Non-Hermitian pseudo-gaps

L Li, CH Lee - Science Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
The notion of a band gap is ubiquitous in the characterization of matter. Particularly
interesting are pseudo-gaps, which are enigmatic regions of very low density of states that …

Unusual behavior of cuprates explained by heterogeneous charge localization

D Pelc, P Popčević, M Požek, M Greven, N Barišić - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates ranks among the major
scientific milestones of the past half century, yet pivotal questions regarding the complex …

Crossover of charge fluctuations across the strange metal phase diagram

AA Husain, M Mitrano, MS Rak, S Rubeck, B Uchoa… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
A normal metal exhibits a valence plasmon, which is a sound wave in its conduction electron
density. The mysterious strange metal is characterized by non-Boltzmann transport and …