There has been growing speculation that a pair density wave state is a key component of the phenomenology of the pseudogap phase in the cuprates. Recently, direct evidence for such a state has emerged from an analysis of scanning tunneling microscopy data in halos around the vortex cores. By extrapolation, these vortex halos would then overlap at a magnetic field scale where quantum oscillations have been observed. Here, we show that a biaxial pair density wave state gives a unique description of the quantum oscillation data, bolstering the case that the pseudogap phase in the cuprates may be a pair density wave state.
@article{arxiv.1802.04333,
title = {Quantum oscillations in a biaxial pair density wave state},
author = {M. R. Norman and J. C. Seamus Davis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.04333},
year = {2018}
}