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Orbital Magnetism in the Cuprates

Superconductivity 2009-11-07 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

The pseudogap phase of the cuprate superconductors is argued to be characterized by a hidden broken symmetry of d-wave character in the particle-hole channel that leads to staggered orbital magnetism. This proposal has many striking phenomenological consequences, but the most direct signature of this order should be visible in the neutron scattering experiments. The theoretical underpinning of these experiments is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0112109,
  title  = {Orbital Magnetism in the Cuprates},
  author = {Sudip Chakravarty and Hae-Young Kee and Chetan Nayak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0112109},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Invited talk at the PPHMF-IV meeting at Santa Fe; uses ws-p8-50x6-00.cls LaTex style file; 7 pages and 3 eps figures