A route to high temperature superconductivity in composite systems (2008)
Berg, E., Orgad, D., Kivelson, S. A.
Apparently, some form of local superconducting pairing persists to temperatures well above the maximum observed $T_c$ in underdoped cuprates, \textit{i.e.} $T_c$ is suppressed due to the small phase...
Theory of quantum metal to superconductor transitions in highly conducting systems (2008)
Spivak, B., Oreto, P., Kivelson, S. A.
We derive the theory of the quantum (zero temperature) superconductor to metal transition in disordered materials when the resistance of the normal metal near criticality is small compared to the...
Xia, Jing, Schemm, Elizabeth, Deutscher, G., Kivelson, S.A., Bonn, D.A., Hardy, W.N., ...
The polar Kerr effect in the high-Tc superconductor YBa2Cu3O6+x was measured at zero magnetic field with high precision using a cyogenic Sagnac fiber interferometer. We observed nonzero Kerr...
Xia, Jing, Schemm, Elizabeth, Deutscher, G., Kivelson, S. A., Bonn, D. A., Hardy, W. N., ...
Polar Kerr effect in the high-Tc superconductor \YBCO was measured at zero magnetic field with high precision using a cyogenic Sagnac fiber interferometer. We observed non-zero Kerr rotations of...
Stability of nodal quasi-particles in superconductors with coexisting orders (2007)
Berg, E., Chen, C-C., Kivelson, S. A.
We establish a condition for the perturbative stability of zero energy nodal points in the quasi-particle spectrum of superconductors in the presence of coexisting \textit{commensurate} orders. The...
Jamei, R., Robertson, J., Kim, E-A., Fang, A., Kapitulnik, A., Kivelson, S. A.
While the influence of impurities on the local density of states (LDOS) in a metal is notoriously non-local due to interference effects, low order moments of the LDOS in general can be shown to...
Hysteresis and noise from electronic nematicity in high-temperature superconductors (2006)
Carlson, E. W., Dahmen, K. A., Fradkin, E., Kivelson, S. A.
An electron nematic is a translationally invariant state which spontaneously breaks the discrete rotational symmetry of a host crystal. In a clean square lattice, the electron nematic has two...
Hysteresis and noise from electronic nematicity in high-temperature superconductors (2006)
Carlson, E. W., Dahmen, K. A., Fradkin, E., Kivelson, S. A.
An electron nematic is a translationally invariant state which spontaneously breaks the discrete rotational symmetry of a host crystal. In a clean square lattice, the electron nematic has two...
Hysteresis and Noise from Electronic Nematicity in High Temperature Superconductors (2005)
Carlson, E. W., Dahmen, K. A., Fradkin, E., Kivelson, S. A.
An electron nematic is a translationally invariant state which spontaneously breaks the discrete rotational symmetry of a host crystal. In a clean square lattice, the electron nematic has two...
Tarjus, G., Kivelson, S. A., Nussinov, Z., Viot, P.
One of the most spectacular phenomena in physics in terms of dynamical range is the glass transition and the associated slowing down of flow and relaxation with decreasing temperature. That it occurs...
Inhomogeneity Induces Resonance Coherence Peaks in Superconducting BSCCO (2005)
Fang, A. C., Capriotti, L., Scalapino, D. J., Kivelson, S. A., Kaneko, N., Greven, M., ...
In this paper we analyze, using scanning tunneling spectroscopy, the density of electronic states in nearly optimally doped BSCCO in zero field. Focusing on the superconducting gap, we find patches...
Competition Between Charge-Density Waves and Superconductivity in Striped Systems (2004)
Arrigoni, E., Fradkin, E., Kivelson, S. A.
Switching on interchain coupling in a system of one-dimensional strongly interacting chains often leads to an ordered state. Quite generally, there is a competition between an insulating...
Mechanism of High Temperature Superconductivity in a striped Hubbard Model (2003)
Arrigoni, E., Fradkin, E., Kivelson, S. A.
It is shown, using asymptotically exact methods, that the two dimensional repulsive Hubbard model with strongly modulated interactions exhibits ``high temperature superconductivity". Specifically,...
The optimal inhomogeneity for superconductivity (2002)
We study the effect of nonuniform transverse couplings on a quasi-one dimensional superconductor. We show that inhomogeneous couplings quite generally increase the superconducting (pairing) gap...
How to detect fluctuating order in the high-temperature superconductors (2002)
Kivelson, S. A., Fradkin, E., Oganesyan, V., Bindloss, I. P., Tranquada, J. M., Kapitulnik, A., ...
We discuss fluctuating order in a quantum disordered phase proximate to a quantum critical point, with particular emphasis on fluctuating stripe order. Optimal strategies for extracting information...
Concepts in High Temperature Superconductivity (2002)
Carlson, E. W., Emery, V. J., Kivelson, S. A., Orgad, D.
It is the purpose of this paper to explore the theory of high temperature superconductivity. Much of the motivation for this comes from the study of the cuprate high temperature superconductors....
Distribution of spectral weight in a system with disordered stripes (2001)
Granath, M., Oganesyan, V., Orgad, D., Kivelson, S. A.
The ``band-structure'' of a disordered stripe array is computed and compared, at a qualitative level, to angle resolved photoemission experiments on the cuprate high temperature superconductors. The...
Electron Fractionalization (2001)
A largely qualitative, and rather idiosyncratic discussion of electron fractionalization in condensed matter physics is presented, including some historical reflections and some speculations...
Stripes and superconducting pairing in the t-J model with Coulomb interactions (2000)
Arrigoni, E., Harju, A. P., Hanke, W., Brendel, B., Kivelson, S. A.
We study the competition between long- and short-range interactions among charge carriers in strongly-correlated electronic systems employing a new method which combines the density-matrix...
Nodal quasi-particles and coexisting orders in striped superconductors (2000)
Granath, M., Oganesyan, V., Kivelson, S. A., Fradkin, E., Emery, V. J.
We study the properties of a quasi-one dimensional superconductor which consists of an alternating array of two inequivalent chains. This model is a simple charicature of a locally striped high...
Orgad, D., Kivelson, S. A., Carlson, E. W., Emery, V. J., Zhou, X. J., Shen, Z. X.
In the normal state of the high temperature superconductors Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+delta} and La_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_4, and in the related ``stripe ordered'' material La_1.25Nd_0.6Sr_0.15CuO_4, there is sharp...
Dimensional Crossover in Quasi One-Dimensional and High T_c Superconductors (2000)
Carlson, E. W., Orgad, D., Kivelson, S. A., Emery, V. J.
The one-dimensional electron gas exhibits spin-charge separation and power-law spectral responses to many experimentally relevant probes. Ordering in a quasi one-dimensional system is necessarily...
Stripe phases in high-temperature superconductors (1999)
Emery, V. J., Kivelson, S. A., Tranquada, J. M.
Stripe phases are predicted and observed to occur in a class of strongly-correlated materials describable as doped antiferromagnets, of which the copper-oxide superconductors are the most prominent...
Local Electronic Structure and High Temperature Superconductivity (1999)
It is argued that a new mechanism and many-body theory of superconductivity are required for doped correlated insulators. Here we review the essential features of and the experimental support for...
Classical Phase Fluctuations in High Temperature Superconductors (1999)
Carlson, E. W., Kivelson, S. A., Emery, V. J., Manousakis, E.
Phase fluctuations of the superconducting order parameter play a larger role in the cuprates than in conventional BCS superconductors because of the low superfluid density of a doped insulator. In...
Charge Transport in Synthetic Metals (1999)
Emery, V. J., Kivelson, S. A., Muthukumar, V. N.
The phenomenology of charge transport in synthetic metals is reviewed. It is argued that the conventional quasiparticle picture and Boltzmann transport theory do not apply to these materials. The...
Classification and Stability of Phases of the Multicomponent One-Dimensional Electron Gas (1998)
Emery, V. J., Kivelson, S. A., Zachar, O.
The classification of the ground-state phases of complex one-dimensional electronic systems is considered in the context of a fixed-point strategy. Examples are multichain Hubbard models, the...
Stripe Liquid, Crystal, and Glass Phases of Doped Antiferromagnets (1998)
A largely descriptive survey is given of the ordered phases of doped antiferromagnets, and of the long wavelength properties that can be derived from an order-parameter theory. In particular, we show...
Microscopic Theory of High Temperature Superconductivity (1998)
It is argued that the BCS many-body theory, which is outstandingly successful for conventional superconductors, does not apply to the high temperature superconductors and that a realistic theory must...
Crossovers and Phase Coherence in Cuprate Superconductors (1997)
High temperature superconductivity is a property of doped antiferromagnetic insulators. The electronic structure is inhomogeneous on short length and time scales, and, as the temperature decreases,...
Doped Antiferromagnets in High Dimension (1997)
Carlson, E. W., Kivelson, S. A., Nussinov, Z., Emery, V. J.
The ground-state properties of the t-J model on a d-dimensional hypercubic lattice are examined in the limit of large d. It is found that the undoped system is an ordered antiferromagnet, and that...
Electronic Liquid Crystal Phases of a Doped Mott Insulator (1997)
Kivelson, S. A., Fradkin, E., Emery, V. J.
The character of the ground state of an antiferromagnetic insulator is fundamentally altered upon addition of even a small amount of charge. The added charges agglomerate along domain walls at which...
Pairing and Phase Coherence in High Temperature Superconductors (1997)
Emery, V. J., Kivelson, S. A., Zachar, O.
Mobile holes in an antiferromagnetic insulator form a slowly fluctuating array of quasi one-dimensional metallic stripes, which induce a spin gap or pseudogap in the intervening Mott-insulating...
Landau Theory of Stripe Phases in Cuprates and Nickelates (1997)
Zachar, Oron, Kivelson, S. A., Emery, V. J.
We consider a Landau theory of coupled charge and spin-density wave order parameters as a simple model for the ordering that has been observed experimentally in the La_2NiO_4 and La_2CuO_4 families...
Spin-Gap Proximity Effect Mechanism of High Temperature Superconductivity (1996)
Emery, V. J., Kivelson, S. A., Zachar, O.
When holes are doped into an antiferromagnetic insulator they form a slowly fluctuating array of ``topological defects'' (metallic stripes) in which the motion of the holes exhibits a self-organized...
Two point-contact interferometer for quantum Hall systems (1996)
Chamon, C. De C., Freed, D. E., Kivelson, S. A., Sondhi, S. L., Wen, X. G.
We propose a device, consisting of a Hall bar with two weak barriers, that can be used to study quantum interference effects in a strongly correlated system. We show how the device provides a way of...
Composite Fermion Hall Conductance at $\nu=1/2$ (1996)
Lee, D-H, Krotov, Y., Gan, J., Kivelson, S. A.
We show that in the limit of vanishing bare electron effective mass, and in the presence of particle-hole symmetric disorder (which can be of vanishing strength), the composite fermion Hall...
Textured Edges in Quantum Hall Systems (1996)
Karlhede, A., Kivelson, S. A., Lejnell, K., Sondhi, S. L.
We have investigated the formation of spin textures at the edges of quantum Hall systems for several ferromagnetic filling factors. The textures are driven by the same physics that leads to...
The Universal Composite Fermion Hall Conductance at $\nu=1/2$ (1996)
Lee, D-H, Krotov, Yu. A., Gan, J., Kivelson, S. A.
We show that at electronic filling factor $\nu=1/2$, the lowest Landau level constraint implies that at any temperature, and in the presence of {\it any} amount of particle-hole symmetric disorder,...
Topological Doping of Correlated Insulators (1996)
A material which is an insulator entirely because of interaction effects is called a correlated insulator. Examples are trans-polyacetylene and the cuprate high temperature superconductors. Whereas...
Implications of Charge Ordering for Single-Particle Properties of High-Tc Superconductors (1996)
Salkola, M. I., Emery, V. J., Kivelson, S. A.
The consequences of disordered charge stripes and antiphase spin domains for the properties of the high-temperature superconductors are studied. We focus on angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy...
Exact Results for 1D Kondo Lattice from Bosonization (1995)
Zachar, Oron, Kivelson, S. A., Emery, V. J.
We find a solvable limit to the problem of the 1D electron gas interacting with a lattice of Kondo scattering centers. In this limit, we present exact results for the problems of incommensurate...
Avoided Critical Behavior in a Uniformly Frustrated System (1995)
Chayes, L., Emery, V. J., Kivelson, S. A., Nussinov, Z., Tarjus, G.
We study the effects of weak long-ranged antiferromagnetic interactions of strength $Q$ on a spin model with predominant short-ranged ferromagnetic interactions. In three dimensions, this model...
Paired States in the Even Integer Quantum Hall Effect (1995)
Tikofsky, A. M., Kivelson, S. A.
We argue that a new type of quantum Hall state requiring non-perturbative Landau level mixing arises at low electron density. In these states, up and down spin electrons pair to form spinless bosons...
Proposed Measurement of an Effective Flux Quantum in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (1993)
Jain, J. K., Kivelson, S. A., Thouless, D. J.
We consider a channel of an incompressible fractional-quantum-Hall-effect (FQHE) liquid containing an island of another FQHE liquid. It is predicted that the resistance of this channel will be...
Stripe phases in high-temperature superconductors
Emery, V. J., Kivelson, S. A., Tranquada, J. M.
Stripe phases are predicted and observed to occur in a class of strongly correlated materials describable as doped antiferromagnets, of which the copper-oxide superconductors are the most prominent...
Stripe phases in high-temperature superconductors
Emery, V. J., Kivelson, S. A., Tranquada, J. M.
Stripe phases are predicted and observed to occur in a class of strongly correlated materials describable as doped antiferromagnets, of which the copper-oxide superconductors are the most prominent...