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The pair-density-wave (PDW) exhibits periodic amplitude and sign modulations of the superconducting order parameter. Such a pairing state has been proposed to be sensitive to nonmagnetic scattering. In this work, we observe the nonmagnetic…

Inspired by empirical evidence of the existence of pair-density-wave (PDW) order in certain underdoped cuprates, we investigate the collective modes in systems with unidirectional PDW order with momenta $\pm {Q}$ and a $d$-wave form-factor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-27 Yi-Ming Wu , Andrey V. Chubukov , Yuxuan Wang , Steven A. Kivelson

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…

A pair density wave (PDW) is a superconducting (SC) state with spatially modulated order parameter. Although much is known about the properties of the PDW state, its realization in microscopic models with divergent susceptibility has been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-21 Hong-Chen Jiang

We report the numerical discovery of a pair-density-wave (PDW) superconductor from doping either (i) a spin-one Haldane chain or (ii) a two-leg ladder in the rung singlet phase in which the doped charges occupy a single leg. We model these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-20 Ya-Hui Zhang , Ashvin Vishwanath

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

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

The Holstein Hamiltonian describes fermions hopping on a lattice and interacting locally with dispersionless phonon degrees of freedom. In the low density limit, dressed quasiparticles, polarons and bipolarons, propagate with an effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-09 Owen Bradley , George G. Batrouni , Richard T. Scalettar

We investigate electronic properties of the doped two-leg Hubbard ladder with both the onsite and the nearest-neighbor Coulomb repulsions, by using the the weak-coupling renormalization-group method. It is shown that, for strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Tsuchiizu , Y. Suzumura

In our previous work [arXiv:1803.00999, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 046401 (2018)], we found a quantum spin liquid phase with a spinon Fermi surface in the two dimensional spin-1/2 Heisenberg model with four-spin ring exchange on a triangular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-30 Xiao Yan Xu , K. T. Law , Patrick A. Lee

The pair-density-wave (PDW) is an exotic pairing state hosting a spatially modulated pairing order parameter, which has attracted great interest. Due to its simultaneously breaking U(1)-gauge and translational symmetries, intriguing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Chu-Tian Gao , Jing Zhou , Yu-Bo Liu , Fan Yang

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

In light of the new experimental and theoretical important developments in high-$T_c$ superconductivity, we revisit the fermionic hot-spot model relevant to the phenomenology of the cuprates. We extend previous results by means of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-05 Hermann Freire , Vanuildo S. de Carvalho , Catherine Pépin

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

We consider superconductivity and pair density waves (PDWs) arising from off-site pairing in frustrated lattice geometries. We express the pair susceptibility in a generic form that highlights the importance of both the density of states,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-28 Eeli O. Lamponen , Sofia K. Pöntys , Päivi Törmä

We uncover the low-energy spectrum of a t-J model for electrons on a square lattice of spin-1 iron atoms with 3dxz and 3dyz orbital character by applying Schwinger-boson-slave-fermion mean-field theory and by exact diagonalization of one…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-07-29 J. P. Rodriguez , M. A. N. Araujo , P. D. Sacramento

In the conventional theory of density wave ordering in metals, the onset of spin density wave (SDW) order co-incides with the reconstruction of the Fermi surfaces into small 'pockets'. We present models which display this transition, while…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-28 Subir Sachdev , Erez Berg , Shubhayu Chatterjee , Yoni Schattner

Charge ordering is often found in the phase diagram of unconventional superconductors in close proximity to the superconducting state. This has led to the suggestion that fluctuations of charge order can mediate superconducting pairing.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-04 R. Torsten Clay , Beau A. Thompson

Suggestive, but indirect evidence of the existence of pair-density wave (PDW) order in several high-$T_{\rm c}$ cuprates has been reported. As this constitutes a new quantum phase of matter, it is important to {\it establish} its existence…

We analyze incommensurate charge-density-wave (CDW) and pair-density-wave (PDW) orders with transferred momenta $(\pm Q,0)$/$(0,\pm Q)$ in underdoped cuprates within the spin-fermion model. Both orders appear due to exchange of spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-21 Yuxuan Wang , Daniel F. Agterberg , Andrey Chubukov