Charge $4e$ superconductivity from pair density wave order in certain high temperature superconductors

Details Charge $4e$ superconductivity from pair density wave order in certain high temperature superconductors Charge $4e$ superconductivity from pair density wave order in certain high temperature superconductors

2009-04-07

arxiv.org/abs/0904.1230v3

Nature Phys. 5, 830 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

5 pages, 2 figures; new version in Nature Physics format with a discussion of the effective Josephson coupling J2 and minor ch

Scientific paper

10.1038/nphys1389

A number of spectacular experimental anomalies\cite{li-2007,fujita-2005} have recently been discovered in certain cuprates, notably {\LBCO} and {\LNSCO}, which exhibit unidirectional spin and charge order (known as ``stripe order''). We have recently proposed to interpret these observations as evidence for a novel ``striped superconducting'' state, in which the superconducting order parameter is modulated in space, such that its average is precisely zero. Here, we show that thermal melting of the striped superconducting state can lead to a number of unusual phases, of which the most novel is a charge $4e$ superconducting state, with a corresponding fractional flux quantum $hc/4e$. These are never-before observed states of matter, and ones, moreover, that cannot arise from the conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) mechanism. Thus, direct confirmation of their existence, even in a small subset of the cuprates, could have much broader implications for our understanding of high temperature superconductivity. We propose experiments to observe fractional flux quantization, which thereby could confirm the existence of these states.

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