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When very high magnetic fields suppress the superconductivity in underdoped cuprates, an exceptional new electronic phase appears. It supports remarkable and unexplained quantum oscillations and exhibits an unidentified density wave (DW)…

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

A recent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiment reports the observation of charge density wave (CDW) with period of approximately 8a in the halo region surrounding the vortex core, in striking contrast to the approximately period 4a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-20 Zhehao Dai , Ya-Hui Zhang , T. Senthil , Patrick Lee

With the ground breaking work of the Fulde, Ferell, Larkin, and Ovchinnikov (FFLO), it was realized that superconducting order can also break translational invariance; leading to a phase in which the Cooper pairs develop a coherent periodic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-02-06 D. F. Agterberg , H. Tsunetsugu

Pair density wave (PDW) states are defined by a spatially modulating superconductive order-parameter. To search for such states in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) we use high-speed atomic-resolution scanned Josephson-tunneling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-29 Xiaolong Liu , Yi Xue Chong , Rahul Sharma , J. C. Séamus Davis

The pair density wave (PDW) exemplifies intertwined orders in strongly correlated systems. A recent discovery of superconductivity in a quarter-metal state offers the first experimental system where a pure PDW without uniform…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-11 Omri Lesser , Chunli Huang , James P. Sethna , Eun-Ah Kim

Recently, it has been reported that the low-temperature high-magnetic field phase in CeCoIn5 (Q-phase), has spin-density wave (SDW) order that only exists within this phase. This indicates that the SDW order is the result of the development…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 D. F. Agterberg , M. Sigrist , H. Tsunetsugu

A recent discovery of the pair density wave (PDW) order creates a stir in understanding an underlying physics in the pseudogap states of the cuprate high temperature superconductors. We have performed a Spectroscopic Imaging Scanning…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-02 Zengyi Du , Hui Li , Kazuhiro Fujita

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 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…

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

A major obstacle in understanding the mechanism of Cooper pairing in the cuprates is the existence of various intertwined orders associated with spin, charge, and Cooper pairs. Of particular importance is the ubiquitous charge order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-08 Wei Ruan , Xintong Li , Cheng Hu , Zhenqi Hao , Haiwei Li , Peng Cai , Xingjiang Zhou , Dung-Hai Lee , Yayu Wang

We consider competing pair-density-wave (PDW) and $d$-wave superconducting states in a magnetic field. We show that PDW order appears in the cores of $d$-wave vortices, driving checkerboard charge-density-wave (CDW) order in the vortex…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-17 Daniel F. Agterberg , Julien Garaud

A pair-density-wave (PDW) is a novel superconducting state with an oscillating order parameter. A microscopic mechanism that can give rise to it has been long sought but has not yet been established by any controlled calculation. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-07 Kevin S. Huang , Zhaoyu Han , Steven A. Kivelson , Hong Yao

Pair-density-wave (PDW) is a long-sought exotic state with oscillating superconducting order without external magnetic field. So far it has been rare in establishing a 2D microscopic model with PDW long-range order in its ground state. Here…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-29 Yi-Fan Jiang , Hong Yao

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

It is now well established that superconducting cuprates support a charge density wave state in the so-called underdoped region of their phase diagram. We investigate the possibility of charge order in the square-lattice Hubbard model, both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-22 J. P. L. Faye , D. Sénéchal

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

Charge order is commonly believed to compete with superconducting order. An intertwined form of superconducting wave function, known as pair-density-wave (PDW) order, has been proposed; however, there has been no direct evidence,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-22 P. M. Lozano , Tianhao Ren , G. D. Gu , A. M. Tsvelik , J. M. Tranquada , Qiang Li

The competing orders in the particle-particle (P-P) channel and the particle-hole (P-H) channel have been proposed separately to explain the pseudogap physics in cuprates. By solving the Bogoliubov-deGennes equation self-consistently, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-10-24 Kangjun Seo , Han-Dong Chen , Jiangping Hu
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