DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1406019111. Quenched disorder and vestigial nematicity in the pseudogap regime of the cuprates

Quenched disorder and vestigial nematicity in the pseudogap regime of the cuprates

10.1073/pnas.1406019111

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Abstract

Significance Recent experiments show that a tendency toward charge density wave (CDW) order, long documented in certain structurally special members of the cuprate family, is a ubiquitous feature of the pseudogap regime in these high-temperature superconductors. We show that quenched disorder plays a key role in this problem, inevitably limiting the growth of CDW correlations even in the most perfect existing crystals and rounding the associated phase transitions. However, weak disorder operating on a unidirectional CDW leaves behind a sharply defined vestigial point-group symmetry breaking and an associated phase transition. We suggest that such electron-nematic order is an essential feature of the pseudogap phase and that the associated quantum critical point may play an essential role in the physics of high-temperature superconductivity.

Bibliography

Nie, L., Tarjus, G., & Kivelson, S. A. (2014). Quenched disorder and vestigial nematicity in the pseudogap regime of the cuprates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(22), 7980â7985.

Authors 3

Laimei Nie (first)
Gilles Tarjus (additional)
Steven Allan Kivelson (additional)

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Created	11 years, 3 months ago (May 6, 2014, 1:45 a.m.)
Deposited	3 years, 4 months ago (April 12, 2022, 10:52 p.m.)
Indexed	1 week, 1 day ago (Aug. 26, 2025, 2:39 a.m.)
Issued	11 years, 3 months ago (May 5, 2014)
Published	11 years, 3 months ago (May 5, 2014)
Published Online	11 years, 3 months ago (May 5, 2014)
Published Print	11 years, 3 months ago (June 3, 2014)

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