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 ICMT Seminar: "Theory of the Competition Between Spin Density Waves and d-wave Superconductivity"
  
  Speaker  

Prof. Subir Sachdev, Harvard University

    
 Date Nov 2, 2009
    
 Time 12:00 pm  
    
 Location 

190 ESB  - 1101 W. Springfield
(SE corner of Springfield and Goodwin)

    
 Cost Free to the public
    
 Sponsor 

Department of Physics

    
 Contact Sue Lynn Herdle
    
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 Phone 244-1553
    
 Event type ICMT Seminar
    
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I will review recent experiments on the cuprate superconductors in the context of a proposed phase diagram as a function of applied magnetic field, temperature, and hole/electron-doping. The theory of spin-fluctuation mediated pairing at large doping must be modified to apply in the underdoped regime. The modified theory includes the pocket structure of the Fermi surface and effects associated with the proximity of the Mott insulator. The theory predicts the competition between spin density wave order and superconductivity, and I discuss how its quantum criticality is connected with the global cuprate phase diagram.

 
 
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