Stripe phases in high-temperature superconductors

TL;DR

This paper discusses the occurrence of stripe phases in high-temperature superconductors, emphasizing their importance in understanding charge transport and superconductivity in strongly-correlated doped antiferromagnets.

Contribution

It highlights the prediction and observation of stripe phases in copper-oxide superconductors, underscoring their role in the theoretical framework of high-temperature superconductivity.

Findings

Stripe phases are both predicted and observed in doped antiferromagnets.

Stripe correlations influence charge transport and superconductivity.

Development of new principles is needed to describe these phenomena.

Abstract

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 representative. The existence of stripe correlations necessitates the development of new principles for describing charge transport, and especially superconductivity, in these materials.