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SUBMITTER: Venderley J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6440755 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Venderley Jordan J Kim Eun-Ah EA
Science advances 20190329 3
Cooper pairs with a finite center-of-mass momentum form a remarkable state in which the superconducting order parameter is modulated periodically in space. Although intense interest in such a "pair-density wave" (PDW) state has emerged due to recent discoveries in high <i>T</i> <sub><i>c</i></sub> superconductors, there is little theoretical understanding of the mechanism driving this exotic state. The challenge is that many competing states lie close in energy in seemingly simple models, such a ...[more]