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 …

A common thread: The pairing interaction for unconventional superconductors

DJ Scalapino - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2012 - APS
The structures, the phase diagrams, and the appearance of a neutron resonance signaling
an unconventional superconducting state provide phenomenological evidence relating the …

Direct observation of competition between superconductivity and charge density wave order in YBa2Cu3O6.67

J Chang, E Blackburn, AT Holmes, NB Christensen… - Nature Physics, 2012 - nature.com
Superconductivity often emerges in the proximity of, or in competition with, symmetry-
breaking ground states such as antiferromagnetism or charge density waves,,,,(CDW). A …

Resonant x-ray scattering studies of charge order in cuprates

R Comin, A Damascelli - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
X-ray techniques have been used for more than a century to study the atomic and electronic
structure in practically any type of material. The advent of correlated electron systems, in …

Magnetic-field-induced charge-stripe order in the high-temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3Oy

T Wu, H Mayaffre, S Krämer, M Horvatić, C Berthier… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Electronic charges introduced in copper-oxide (CuO2) planes generate high-transition-
temperature (T c) superconductivity but, under special circumstances, they can also order …

Colloquium: Theory of intertwined orders in high temperature superconductors

E Fradkin, SA Kivelson, JM Tranquada - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
The electronic phase diagrams of many highly correlated systems, and, in particular, the
cuprate high temperature superconductors, are complex, with many different phases …

Progress and perspectives on electron-doped cuprates

NP Armitage, P Fournier, RL Greene - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2010 - APS
Although the vast majority of high-T c cuprate superconductors are hole-doped, a small
family of electron-doped compounds exists. Underinvestigated until recently, there has been …

Three-dimensional charge density wave order in YBa2Cu3O6.67 at high magnetic fields

S Gerber, H Jang, H Nojiri, S Matsuzawa, H Yasumura… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Charge density wave (CDW) correlations have been shown to universally exist in cuprate
superconductors. However, their nature at high fields inferred from nuclear magnetic …

Broken rotational symmetry in the pseudogap phase of a high-Tc superconductor

R Daou, J Chang, D LeBoeuf, O Cyr-Choiniere… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
The nature of the pseudogap phase is a central problem in the effort to understand the high-
transition-temperature (high-T c) copper oxide superconductors. A fundamental question is …

Scattering and pairing in cuprate superconductors

L Taillefer - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2010 - annualreviews.org
The origin of the exceptionally strong superconductivity of cuprates remains a subject of
debate after more than two decades of investigation. Here we follow a new lead: The onset …