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Superconductivity in La$_{4}$Ni$_{3}$O$_{10}$ has been reported to emerge upon suppression of intertwined spin and charge density wave (SDW/CDW) order, suggesting a possible connection to the pairing mechanism. Here we report a systematic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-22 Stephen Zhang , Danrui Ni , Ruyi Ke , Guangming Cheng , Nan Yao , Robert J. Cava

The recent experimental observations of high temperature superconductivity in bilayer nickelate have attracted lots of attentions. Previous studies have assumed a mirror symmetry $\mathcal M$ between the two layers and focused on uniform…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-23 Hanbit Oh , Ya-Hui Zhang

Intertwining charge density wave (CDW) with spin and pairing order parameters is a major focus of contemporary condensed matter physics. Lattice distortions and local symmetry breaking resulted from CDWs are crucial for the emergence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-13 Haoyang Ni , William R. Meier , Hu Miao , Andrew J. May , Brian C. Sales , Jian-min Zuo , Miaofang Chi

Unconventional superconductivity is usually associated with symmetry breaking in the system. Here we consider a simple setup consisting of a solid state material with conduction electrons and an applied surface acoustic wave (SAW), that can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-28 Viktoriia Kornich

An indispensable ingredient for pair density wave (PDW) superconductivity is the presence of an attractive pairing interaction at finite momentum. Here, we show how this condition can be met with straightforward electron-density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-16 Nicole Sabina Ticea , Srinivas Raghu , Yi-Ming Wu

A spatially modulated superconducting state, known as pair density wave (PDW), is a tantalizing state of matter with unique properties. Recent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) studies revealed that spin-triplet superconductor UTe$_2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-08 Caitlin S. Kengle , Jakub Vonka , Sonia Francoual , Johan Chang , Peter Abbamonte , Marc Janoschek , P. F. S. Rosa , Wolfgang Simeth

Superconducting states that break space-group symmetries of the underlying crystal can exhibit nontrivial spatial modulation of the order parameter. Previously, such remarkable states were intimately associated with the breaking of…

The interplay among charge, spin and lattice degrees of freedom in solids gives rise to intriguing macroscopic quantum phenomena such as colossal magnetoresistance, multiferroicity and high-temperature superconductivity. Strong coupling or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-07-18 K. W. Kim , A. Pashkin , H. Schäfer , M. Beyer , M. Porer , T. Wolf , C. Bernhard , J. Demsar , R. Huber , A. Leitenstorfer

Electron-lattice coupling effects in low dimensional materials give rise to charge density wave (CDW) order and phase transitions. These phenomena are critical ingredients for superconductivity and predominantly occur in metallic model…

The pair density wave (PDW) is a novel superconducting state with non-zero center-of-mass momentum Cooper pairing in the absence of external magnetic fields. Its realization in microscopic models as the ground state is very rare and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-07 Han-Yang Liu , Da Wang , Ziqiang Wang , Qiang-Hua Wang

A pair density wave (PDW) is a superconductor whose order parameter is a periodic function of space, without an accompanying spatially-uniform component. Since PDWs are not the outcome of a weak-coupling instability of a Fermi liquid, a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-25 Yi-Ming Wu , P. A. Nosov , Aavishkar A. Patel , S. Raghu

Pair density wave (PDW) is a distinct superconducting state characterized by a periodic modulation of its order parameter in real space. Its intricate interplay with the charge density wave (CDW) state is a continuing topic of interest in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-04 Lu Cao , Yucheng Xue , Yingbo Wang , Fu-Chun Zhang , Jian Kang , Hong-Jun Gao , Jinhai Mao , Yuhang Jiang

Recent advances in experiment and theory suggest that superfluid $^3$He under planar confinement may form a pair density wave (PDW) whereby superfluid and crystalline orders coexist. While a natural candidate for this phase is a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-10 Pramodh Senarath Yapa , Rufus Boyack , Joseph Maciejko

We study the emergence of multiband superconductivity with $s$- and $d-$wave symmetry on the background of spin density wave (SDW). We show that the SDW coherence factors renormalize the momentum dependence of the superconducting (SC) gap,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 J. -P. Ismer , Ilya Eremin , Enrico Rossi , Dirk K. Morr , G. Blumberg

Spin-triplet topological superconductors should exhibit many unprecedented electronic properties including fractionalized electronic states relevant to quantum information processing. Although UTe$_2$ may embody such bulk topological…

We show that spontaneous time-reversal-symmetry (TRS) breaking can naturally arise from the interplay between pair density wave (PDW) ordering at multiple momenta and nesting of Fermi surfaces (FS). Concretely, we consider pair-density-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-12 Jin-Tao Jin , Kun Jiang , Hong Yao , Yi Zhou

In contrast to conventional s-wave superconductivity, unconventional (e.g. p or d-wave) superconductivity is strongly suppressed even by relatively weak disorder. Upon approaching the superconductor-metal transition, the order parameter…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-27 A. Keles , A. V. Andreev , S. A. Kivelson , B. Z. Spivak

Unconventional superconductors are often characterized by numerous competing and even intertwined orders in their phase diagrams. In particular, the electronic nematic phases, which spontaneously break rotational symmetry and often…

We investigate the macroscopic effects of charge density waves (CDW) and superconductivity in layered superconducting systems with broken lattice inversion symmetry (allowing for piezoelectricity) such as two dimensional (2D) transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Uchoa , A. H. Castro Neto , G. G. Cabrera

The dynamical conductivity $\sigma (\omega)$, reflectivity $R(\omega)$, and tunneling density of states $N(\omega)$ of strongly correlated systems (like heavy fermions) with a spin-density wave (SDW) magnetic order are studied as a function…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 O. V. Dolgov , M. L. Kulic