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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

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

A robust theory of the mechanism of pair density wave (PDW) superconductivity (i.e. where Cooper pairs have nonzero center of mass momentum) remains elusive. Here we explore the triangular lattice $t$-$J$-$V$ model, a low-energy effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-28 Jiucai Wang , Wen Sun , Hao-Xin Wang , Zhaoyu Han , Steven A. Kivelson , Hong Yao

The spin-density wave (SDW) can be considered as a pair of charge density waves (CDWs), one composed only of electrons with up-spins and the other only of electrons with down-spins. The high-temperature superconductivity found in cuprates…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-17 Je Huan Koo , Kwang Chul Son

Recent experiments have shown that the nonzero center of mass momentum pair density wave (PDW) is a widespread phenomenon observed over different superconducting materials. However, concrete theoretical model realizations of the PDW order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-19 Yi Zhang , Ziqiang Wang

The discovery of multiple charge-density-wave (CDW) orders in superconducting cuprates and Kagome CsV3Sb5 has offered a unique milieu for studying the interplay of CDW and superconductivity and altered our perspective on their nature. Here,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-06 Shuyang Wang , Qing Wang , Chao An , Yonghui Zhou , Ying Zhou , Xuliang Chen , Ning Hao , Zhaorong Yang

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)…

The pair density wave (PDW) superconducting state has been proposed to explain the layer- decoupling effect observed in the compound La$_{2-x}$Ba$_x$CuO$_4$ at $x=1/8$ (Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 127003). In this state the superconducting order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-06-07 Rodrigo Soto-Garrido , Yuxuan Wang , Eduardo Fradkin , S. Lance Cooper

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 strongly correlated spin-triplet superconductor UTe2 hosts an unusual landscape of magnetic-field-sensitive charge density wave (CDW) phases, positioning it as a compelling system for studying intertwined electronic orders. A central…

We investigate the nematic and loop-current type orders that may arise as vestigial precursor phases in a model with an underlying pair-density wave (PDW) instability. We discuss how such a vestigial phase gives rise to a highly anisotropic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-07 Jonatan Wårdh , Mats Granath

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…

Motivated by scanning tunneling microscopy experiments on $A$V$_3$Sb$_5$ ($A$ = Cs, Rb, K) that revealed periodic real-space modulation of electronic states at low energies, I show using model calculations that a triple-{\bf Q} chiral pair…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-29 Narayan Mohanta

We show that the pair-density-wave (PDW) superconducting state emergent in extended Heisenberg-Hubbard models in two-leg ladders is topological in the presence of an Ising spin symmetry and supports a Majorana zero mode (MZM) at an open…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-22 Gil Young Cho , Rodrigo Soto-Garrido , Eduardo Fradkin

To capture various experimental results in the pseudogap regime of the underdoped cuprate superconductors for temperature $T<T^{*}$, we propose a four-component pair density wave (PDW) state, in which all components compete with each other.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-03 Cheung Chan

We show using bosonization methods that extended Hubbard-Heisenberg models on two types of two leg ladders (without flux and with flux $\pi$ per plaquette) have commensurate pair-density wave (PDW) phases. In the case of the conventional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-12 Akbar Jaefari , Eduardo Fradkin

Pair density waves (PDWs) are a inhomogeneous superconducting states whose Cooper pairs possess a finite momentum resulting in a oscillatory gap in space, even in the absence of an external magnetic field. There is growing evidence for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-17 Marcus Rosales , Eduardo Fradkin

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

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

When Cooper pairs are formed with finite center-of-mass momentum, the defining characteristic is a spatially modulating superconducting energy gap $\Delta(r)$. Recently, this concept has been generalized to the pair density wave (PDW) state…