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Feedback of superconducting fluctuations on charge order in the underdoped cuprates

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

Debanjan Chowdhury
S. Sachdev

Abstract

Metals interacting via short-range antiferromagnetic fluctuations are unstable to sign-changing superconductivity at low temperatures. For the cuprates, this leading instability leads to the well-known d-wave superconducting state. However, there is also a secondary instability to an incommensurate charge-density wave, with a predominantly d-wave form factor, arising from the same antiferromagnetic fluctuations. Recent experiments in the pseudogap regime of the hole-doped cuprates have found strong evidence for such a charge-density wave order and, in particular, the predicted d-wave form factor. However, the observed wave vector of the charge order differs from the leading instability in Hartree-Fock theory, and is that of a subleading instability. In this paper, we examine the feedback of superconducting fluctuations on these different charge-density wave states, and find that over at least a small temperature window, they prefer the experimentally observed wave vector. © 2014 American Physical Society.

Date Published

Journal

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volume

90

Issue

13

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84908179322&doi=10.1103%2fPhysRevB.90.134516&partnerID=40&md5=cf0622e23aa189984f71ccdf6cf93756

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevB.90.134516

Group (Lab)

Debanjan Chowdhury Group

Funding Source

1103860

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