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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…

Pair-density waves (PDW) are superconducting states that spontaneously break translation symmetry in systems with time-reversal symmetry (TRS). Evidence for PDW has been seen in several recent experiments, as well as in the pseudogap regime…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-02 Daniel Shaffer , Luiz H. Santos

Pair density waves (PDW) are novel forms of superconducting states that exhibit periodically modulated pairing. A remaining challenge is to elucidate how intrinsic PDW order can emerge robustly in strongly correlated electrons. Here we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-09 Hao-Xin Wang , Yi-Jian Hu , Wen Huang , Hong Yao

We present a theoretical model to show that the transition from an antiferromagnetic (AFM) phase to the $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave superconductivity occurs through a robust companion of a finite momentum pairing between $({\bf k},\uparrow)$ and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-21 Tanmoy Das

The proximity effect in hybrid superconducting - normal metal structures is shown to affect strongly the coherent oscillations of the superconducting order parameter $\Delta$ known as the Higgs modes. The standard Higgs mode at the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-18 V. L. Vadimov , I. M. Khaymovich , A. S. Mel'nikov

The possibility of realizing pair density wave (PDW) phases, in which Cooper pairs have a finite momentum, presents an interesting challenge that has been studied in a wide variety of systems. In conventional superconductors, this is only…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-30 Daniel Shaffer , F. J. Burnell , Rafael M. Fernandes

Interior-gap superconductivity has long been discussed as an exotic paired state in the presence of Fermi-surface mismatch, but its realization in canonical strongly correlated models has remained elusive. Here we present evidence that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-01 Yuto Hirose , Shunsuke C. Furuya , Yasuhiro Tada

Motivated by exploring superconductivity in multi-orbital systems, we study two orbital models of spinful fermions representing ($p_x,p_y$) or ($d_{xz}, d_{yz})$ orbitals on the square lattice. For minimal interorbital $t$-$J$ or $t$-$V$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-27 Samuel Vadnais , Arun Paramekanti

We consider a simple model of a quasi-one-dimensional conductor in which two order parameters (OP) may coexist, i.e., the superconducting OP $\Delta$ and the OP $W$ that characterizes the amplitude of a charge-density wave (CDW). In the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-07-23 Andreas Moor , Pavel A. Volkov , Anatoly F. Volkov , Konstantin B. Efetov

Electron-pair density wave (PDW) states are now an intense focus of research in the field of cuprate correlated superconductivity. PDWs exhibit periodically modulating superconductive electron pairing which can be visualized directly using…

We study the coexistence of pair- (PDW) and charge-density-wave (CDW) states within the single-band $t$-$J$-$U$ and Hubbard models of $d$-$wave$ superconductivity and discuss our results in the context of the experimental observations for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-07 M. Zegrodnik , J. Spałek

We consider the id-density wave (DDW) order, representing the pseudo-gap (PG) state, and the d-wave superconductivity (DSC)within the BCS framework for the two-dimensional (2D) fermion system on a square lattice starting with a mean-field…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-06-28 Partha Goswami

We analyze the interplay between a d-wave uniform superconducting and a pair-density-wave (PDW) order parameter in the neighborhood of a vortex. We develop a phenomenological nonlinear sigma-model, solve the saddle point equation for the…

We study collective modes near the quantum critical point of a pair-density-wave (PDW) superconductor in 2+1 dimensions. The fate of gaps of various collective modes is investigated by functional renormalization. For incommensurate PDW…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-13 Shao-Kai Jian , Michael M. Scherer , Hong Yao

Pair-density-wave (PDW) states are a long-sought-after phase of quantum materials, with the potential to unravel the mysteries of high-$T_c$ cuprates and other strongly correlated superconductors. Yet, surprisingly, a key signature of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-19 Ke Wang , Qijin Chen , Rufus Boyack , K. Levin

Central to the layered kagome lattice superconductors AV3Sb5 (A = K, Cs, Rb) is a cascade of novel quantum states triggered by an unconventional charge density wave (CDW) order. The three-dimensional (3D) order involves a 2x2x2 phase…

We review the physics of pair density wave (PDW) superconductors. We begin with a macroscopic description that emphasizes order induced by PDW states, such as charge density wave, and discuss related vestigial states that emerge as a…

We analyze the interplay between charge-density-wave (CDW) and pair-density-wave (PDW) orders within the spin-fermion model for the cuprates. We specifically consider CDW order with transferred momenta $(\pm Q,0)$/$(0,\pm Q)$, and PDW order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-23 Yuxuan Wang , Daniel F. Agterberg , Andrey Chubukov

When a continuous symmetry of a physical system is spontaneously broken, two types of collective modes typically emerge: the amplitude and phase modes of the order-parameter fluctuation. For superconductors, the amplitude mode is recently…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-19 Ryo Shimano , Naoto Tsuji

A pair density wave (PDW) is a superconducting state characterized by an order parameter with finite center-of-mass momentum in the absence of an external magnetic field, thereby breaking the conventional translational symmetry in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-13 Zi-Ang Wang , Bin Hu , Xianghe Han , Hui Chen , Hong-Jun Gao