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Fractionalizing a Local Pair Density Wave: a Good “Recipe” for Opening a Pseudo-gap

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We give a concise version of a recently proposed concept of fractionalization of an order parameter, thus generating a constraint through a fictitious gauge field (Chakraborty et al. 2019). We argue that this new line of approach is key to explain the longstanding mystery of the pseudo-gap phase in cuprate superconductors. For example, the fractionalization of a finite momentum, charge two state living on lattice bonds- also called Pair Density Wave, into a particle-particle and a particle-hole pair leads to the opening of a gap in the fermionic spectrum. It induces “phase-locking” between the particle-particle and particle-hole pairs. We describe the formation of the Fermi arcs in the spectrum and give an account of recent Raman spectroscopy results from a minimal microscopic model. We relate the “phase-locking” to intriguing STM experimental observations.

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Acknowledgments

We thank J.C.S. Davis, M.H. Hamidian, Y. Sidis, X. Montiel, S. Sarkar and A. Banerjee for valuable discussions and critical reading of our manuscript. The authors also like to thank the IIP (Natal, Brazil), where the inspiration for this work came from and where parts of this work were done, for hospitality.

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This work has received financial support from the ERC, under grant agreement AdG-694651-CHAMPAGNE.

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Grandadam, M., Chakraborty, D. & Pépin, C. Fractionalizing a Local Pair Density Wave: a Good “Recipe” for Opening a Pseudo-gap. J Supercond Nov Magn 33, 2361–2368 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-019-05380-6

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