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

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 111; no. 22; pp. 7980 - 7985
• Main Authors: Nie, Laimei, Tarjus, Gilles, Kivelson, Steven Allan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 03.06.2014; National Acad Sciences
• Subjects: Anisotropy; Approximation; Broken symmetry; Checkerboards; Copper - chemistry; Crystal lattices; Cuprates; Electric Conductivity; Electronics - methods; Experiments; High temperature; Microscopy; Microscopy, Scanning Tunneling; Models, Chemical; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Phase diagrams; Phase Transition; physical phases; Physical Sciences; Physics - methods; Quenching; Rapid quenching; scanning tunneling microscopy; Scattering; Semiconductors; Stripes; Superconductors; Symmetry; Temperature; Theoretical analysis; Thermodynamics; Transition temperatures; X-radiation

The cuprate high-temperature superconductors have been the focus of unprecedentedly intense and sustained study not only because of their high superconducting transition temperatures, but also because they represent the most exquisitely investigated examples of highly correlated electronic materials...