• DOI:10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031119-050711
• Corpus ID: 127956852

The Physics of Pair-Density Waves: Cuprate Superconductors and Beyond

@article{Agterberg2019ThePO,
  title={The Physics of Pair-Density Waves: Cuprate Superconductors and Beyond},
  author={Daniel Agterberg and J. C. S{\'e}amus Davis and Stephen D. Edkins and Eduardo Fradkin and Dale J. van Harlingen and Steven A. Kivelson and Patrick A. Lee and Leo Radzihovsky and John M. Tranquada and Yuxuan Wang},
  journal={Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics},
  year={2019}
}

• D. Agterberg, J. C. Davis, +7 authors Yuxuan Wang
• Published 22 April 2019
• Physics
• Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

We review the physics of pair-density wave (PDW) superconductors. We begin with a macroscopic description that emphasizes order induced by PDW states, such as charge-density wave, and discuss related vestigial states that emerge as a consequence of partial melting of the PDW order. We review and critically discuss the mounting experimental evidence for such PDW order in the cuprate superconductors, the status of the theoretical microscopic description of such order, and the current debate on whether the PDW is a mother order or another competing order in the cuprates. In addition, we give an overview of the weak coupling version of PDW order, Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov states, in the context of cold atom systems, unconventional superconductors, and noncentrosymmetric and Weyl materials.