Stripe order and pairing in the Cuprate Superconductors

Seminar by Mats Granath, University of Gothenburg.

Abstract
Evidence is mounting that electronic "stripe" order with broken lattice rotational and translational symmetry is a ubiquitous feature of the copper-oxide high-temperature superconductors. I review some of the evidence for such electronic phases and discuss their possible relevance to superconductivity in these materials. I will also mention some recent work that explores stripe pair correlations to make connections to experimental observations from angle resolved photoemission and scanning tunneling spectroscopy.