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most citedShort-ranged RVB physics, quantum dimer models and Ising gauge theories

342 citations · 503 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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cond-mat.str-el2026

Vestigial Nematic Order at Zero Temperature in Two-Dimensional Frustrated Quantum Antiferromagnets

Matthew C. O'Brien, Eduardo Fradkin

The phase diagram of the two-dimensional quantum - Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a square lattice is a long-standing open problem. Despite recent advances in numerical te…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Superconducting States and Intertwined Orders in Metallic Altermagnets

Xuan Zou, Rafael M. Fernandes, Eduardo Fradkin

Altermagnets are a newly identified class of magnets with nodal spin-split band structures, providing a fertile platform for studying unconventional superconductivity and intertwin…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Evidence of intertwined pair density and charge density wave orders in UTe2

Zhen Zhu, Yudi Huang, Julian May-Mann +9

The strongly correlated spin-triplet superconductor UTe2 hosts an unusual landscape of magnetic-field-sensitive charge density wave (CDW) phases, positioning it as a compelling sys…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 7 cited

Intertwined Orders and the Physics of High Temperature Superconductors

Eduardo Fradkin

Complex phase diagrams are generic feature of quantum materials that display high temperature superconductivity. In addition to d-wave superconductivity (or other unconventional st…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Vortex flow anisotropy in nematic superconductors

F. Castillo Menegotto, R. S. Severino, P. D. Mininni +4

We investigate the vortex flow anisotropy in the mixed state of nematic superconductors, focusing on the effects of nematic-superconducting coupling on vortex dynamics. Using numer…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Charge order-driven nematicity in the nickel-pnictide superconductor BaSrNiAs

Thomas Johnson, Camille Bernal-Choban, Sangjun Lee +8

Nematic order refers to the spontaneous breaking of rotational symmetry while preserving translational symmetry. First identified in classical liquid crystals, nematic order arises…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 1 cited

Intertwined order of generalized global symmetries

Benjamin Moy, Eduardo Fradkin

We investigate the interplay of generalized global symmetries in 2+1 dimensions in a lattice model that couples a clock model to a gauge theory via a…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Measurement of the dynamic charge susceptibility near the charge density wave transition in ErTe

Dipanjan Chaudhuri, Qianni Jiang, Xuefei Guo +9

A charge density wave (CDW) is a phase of matter characterized by a periodic modulation of the valence electron density accompanied by a distortion of the lattice structure. The mi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Altermagnetism: an unconventional spin-ordered phase of matter

T. Jungwirth, R. M. Fernandes, E. Fradkin +3

The Pauli exclusion principle combined with interactions between fermions is a basic mechanism across condensed-matter systems giving rise to a spontaneous breaking of the spin-spa…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Interplay of Quantum and Thermal Fluctuations in Two-Dimensional Randomly Pinned Charge Density Waves

Matthew C. O'Brien, Eduardo Fradkin

The interplay between quantum and thermal fluctuations in the presence of quenched random disorder is a long-standing open theoretical problem which has been made more urgent by ad…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 8 cited

Absence of a bulk charge density wave signature in x-ray measurements of UTe

Caitlin S. Kengle, Dipanjan Chaudhuri, Xuefei Guo +12

The long-sought pair density wave (PDW) is an exotic phase of matter in which charge density wave (CDW) order is intertwined with the amplitude or phase of coexisting, superconduct…

cond-mat.supr-con2024★ 3 cited

Electronic structure of topological defects in the pair density wave superconductor

Marcus Rosales, Eduardo Fradkin

Pair density waves (PDWs) are a inhomogeneous superconducting states whose Cooper pairs possess a finite momentum resulting in a oscillatory gap in space, even in the absence of an…

cond-mat.supr-con2024★ 3 cited

A Ginzburg-Landau approach to the vortex-domain wall interaction in superconductors with nematic order

Ramiro Severino, Pablo Mininni, Eduardo Fradkin +3

In this work we study the interaction between vortices and nematic domain walls within the framework of a Ginzburg Landau approach. The free energy of the system is written in term…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 22 cited

Microscopic Model for Fractional Quantum Hall Nematics

Songyang Pu, Ajit C. Balram, Joseph Taylor +2

Geometric fluctuations of the density mode in a fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state can give rise to a nematic FQH phase, a topological state with a spontaneously broken rotational…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 1 cited

An Exactly Solvable Model of Randomly Pinned Charge Density Waves in Two Dimensions

Matthew C. O'Brien, Eduardo Fradkin

The nature of the interplay between fluctuations and quenched random disorder is a long-standing open problem, particularly in systems with a continuous order parameter. This lack…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 25 cited

Visualizing the melting of the charge density wave in UTe2 by generation of pairs of topological defects with opposite winding

Anuva Aishwarya, Julian May-Mann, Avior Almoalem +6

Topological defects are singularities in an ordered phase that can have a profound effect on phase transitions and serve as a window into the order parameter. In this work we use s…

cond-mat.str-el2009★ 63 cited

Mapping the magneto-structural quantum phases of Mn3O4

M. Kim, X. M. Chen, E. Fradkin +2

We present temperature-dependent x-ray diffraction and temperature- and field-dependent Raman scattering studies of single crystal Mn3O4, which reveal the novel magnetostructural p…

cond-mat.str-el2008

Quantum dimer models and exotic orders

K. S. Raman, E. Fradkin, R. Moessner +2

We discuss how quantum dimer models may be used to provide "proofs of principle" for the existence of exotic magnetic phases in quantum spin systems.

cond-mat.str-el2008★ 28 cited

Raman scattering studies of temperature- and field-induced melting of charge order in (La,Pr,Ca)MnO

M. Kim, H. Barath, S. L. Cooper +5

We present Raman scattering studies of the structural and magnetic phases that accompany temperature- and field-dependent melting of charge- and orbital-order (COO) in La0.5Ca0.5Mn…

cond-mat.supr-con2001★ 342 cited

Short-ranged RVB physics, quantum dimer models and Ising gauge theories

R. Moessner, S. L. Sondhi, Eduardo Fradkin

Quantum dimer models are believed to capture the essential physics of antiferromagnetic phases dominated by short-ranged valence bond configurations. We show that these models aris…