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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

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…

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-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

Pair density wave (PDW) is an intriguing quantum matter proposed in the frontier of condensed matter physics. However, the existence of PDW in microscopic models has been rare. In this work, we obtain, by Ginzburg-Landau arguments and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-06 Meng Yao , Yan Wang , Da Wang , Jia-Xin Yin , Qiang-Hua Wang

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

Recently a novel surface pair-density-wave (PDW) superconducting state has been discovered in Refs. [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{122}, 165302 (2019)] and Phys. Rev. B \textbf{101}, 054506 (2020)], which may go through a distinct multiple phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-25 Liangyuan Chen , Yajiang Chen , Zhang Wenhui , Zhou Shuhua

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

The interplay between charge-density waves (CDWs), which break translational symmetry, and spatially homogeneous superconductivity, which breaks global U(1) gauge symmetry, can give rise to an intriguing phenomenon: the pair-density wave,…

The quest to understand the nature of superconductivity in cuprates has spotlighted the pair density wave (PDW) -- a superconducting state characterized by a spatially modulated order parameter. Despite significant advances in understanding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-22 Hong-Chen Jiang , Thomas Peter Devereaux

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

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 show that odd-parity superconductivity occurs in multilayer Rashba systems without requiring spin-triplet Cooper pairs. A pairing interaction in the spin-singlet channel stabilizes the odd-parity pair-density-wave (PDW) state in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-29 Tatsuya Watanabe , Tomohiro Yoshida , Youichi Yanase

The pair density wave (PDW) is a novel superconducting state in which Cooper pairs carry center-of-mass momentum in equilibrium, leading to the breaking of translational symmetry. Experimental evidence for such a state exists in high…

We define a distinct phase of matter, a "pair density wave" (PDW), in which the superconducting order parameter $\phi$ varies periodically as a function of position such that when averaged over the center of mass position, all components of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-02-25 Erez Berg , Eduardo Fradkin , Steven A. Kivelson

We investigate in underdoped cuprates possible coexistence of the superconducting (SC) order at zero momentum and pair density wave (PDW) at momentum ${\bf Q}=(\pi, \pi)$ in the presence of a Neel order. By symmetry, the $d$-wave uniform…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-29 Li-Han Chen , Da Wang , Yi Zhou , Qiang-Hua Wang

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…

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

Describing and achieving `unconventional' superconductivity remains a forefront challenge in quantum many-body physics. Here we use a unitary mapping, combined with the well-established properties of the attractive Hubbard model to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-04-18 Xingchuan Zhu , Junsong Sun , Shou-Shu Gong , Wen Huang , Shiping Feng , Richard T. Scalettar , Huaiming Guo

We reveal that in a magnetically polarized medium, a specific commensurate triplet pair density wave (TPDW) superconducting (SC) state, the staggered d-wave $\Pi$-triplet state, may coexist with homogeneous triplet SC states and even…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-23 Marios Georgiou , Georgios Varelogiannis