Thursday, October 04, 2012
4:00 PM -
5:00 PM
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Physics Research Conference
Series: Physics Research Conference
Electronic nematic phases in high temperature superconductors
Ian Fisher,
Stanford University,
Borrowing language from the field of soft condensed matter, electronic nematic phases in crystalline systems break a discrete rotational symmetry of the crystal lattice without further breaking translational symmetry. In this talk I'll outline methods to measure an associated quantity, the nematic susceptibility, which diverges towards a nematic phase transition. These measurements directly reveal the presence of an electronic nematic phase transition in a family of high temperature superconductors, and an associated quantum phase transition at optimal doping.
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