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Antiferromagnetism from phase disordering of a d-wave superconductor

Superconductivity 2007-05-23 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The unbinding of vortex defects in the superconducting condensate with d-wave symmetry at T=0 is shown to lead to the insulator with incommensurate spin-density-wave order. The transition is similar to the spontaneous generation of the "chiral" mass in the three dimensional quantum electrodynamics, at which the global chiral symmetry one can define in the superconducting state is spontaneously broken. Other symmetry related states and possible relations to recent experiments on uderdoped cuprates are briefly discussed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0110188,
  title  = {Antiferromagnetism from phase disordering of a d-wave superconductor},
  author = {Igor F. Herbut},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0110188},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

RevTex, 4 pages, one ps figure; comments on confinement in the SDW added, references updated; final version