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Intertwined Orders and the Physics of High Temperature Superconductors

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Pith's one-line read This review argues that the rich phase diagrams of high-temperature superconductors reflect intertwined orders — not competing ones — with the pair-density wave as the central state connecting charge, spin, and superconducting order.

desk verdict Honest, high-quality survey of the intertwined-orders program, but it is a restatement of prior work and its flagship LBCO layer-decoupling argument rests on an asserted stacking pattern. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.21673 v2 pith:W3JBDWKV submitted 2025-06-26 cond-mat.supr-con

Eduardo Fradkin This is my paper
classification cond-mat.supr-con
keywords pairdensitywaveintertwinedordershigh-temperaturesuperconductivitycuprateschargeelectronicnematicordervestigialhalf-vortex
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The reading

High-temperature superconducting materials show a crowded phase diagram: $d$-wave superconductivity coexists with charge-density waves, spin-density waves, and electronic nematic order, all with comparable critical temperatures. This review argues that these orders are not competitors that happen to sit near each other; they are “intertwined orders” that originate from the same microscopic physics. The pair-density wave (PDW), a superconducting state whose Cooper pairs carry finite momentum and whose order parameter oscillates in space, is presented as the prototypical intertwined order. If this picture is right, the apparent competition among phases is a surface feature, and the theoretical task shifts from fine-tuning competing order parameters to understanding one underlying state and its vestigial remnants.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the unidirectional pair-density wave order parameter, written as two complex fields $\Delta_{Q}$ and $\Delta_{-Q}$ with wave vectors $\pm Q$. Their phase fields define a superfluid phase $\theta$ and a CDW phase $\varphi$; the gauge-invariant composite products $\Delta_{-Q}^*\Delta_Q$ and $\Delta_Q\Delta_{-Q}$ generate the daughter charge-density wave and a charge-$4e$ condensate. Topological textures of these fields — vortices, double dislocations, and half-vortices — drive the Kosterlitz–Thouless melting of the PDW and produce the vestigial phases of the phase diagram. The Landau–Ginzburg free energy built from these fields is what turns the intertwined-order idea into concrete predictions about Josephson tunneling, flux quantization, and vortex halos.

What would settle it

A local SQUID magnetometry search on clean La$_{2-x}$Ba$_x$CuO$_4$ at $x=1/8$ that finds only $\Phi_0=hc/2e$ vortices and none with $\Phi_0/2$ would falsify the PDW half-vortex prediction; alternatively, an experiment showing that interlayer Josephson coupling is not frustrated when the LTT stacking is modified would falsify the layer-decoupling explanation.

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Core claim

The central claim is that the phases observed in cuprates and related materials should be understood as intertwined orders: the charge-density wave, spin-density wave, nematic, and $d$-wave superconducting states are related by symmetry to a common “mother” state, the pair-density wave, a superconductor in which the pairing amplitude modulates with a period of a few lattice constants. In the proposed Landau–Ginzburg theory, the PDW is described by two complex order parameters $\Delta_{\pm Q}$; from them the charge order $\rho_{2Q}\sim\Delta_{-Q}^*\Delta_Q$ and a charge-$4e$ condensate $\Delta_{4e}\sim\Delta_Q\Delta_{-Q}$ follow as induced composite orders. The argument explains the anomalous dynamical layer decoupling in La$_{2-x}$Ba$_x$CuO$_4$ at $x=1/8$, predicts half-vortices carrying half the usual flux quantum ($hc/4e$), and shows that in two dimensions thermal melting of the PDW produces vestigial CDW, nematic, and charge-$4e$ phases without fine-tuning. The paper concludes that many of the observed phases in these materials may arise from a common origin and from the same microscopic physics.

Load-bearing premise

The argument's load-bearing premise is that in the LTT phase of La$_{2-x}$Ba$_x$CuO$_4$ consecutive CuO$_2$ planes are pinned by the crystal structure with a 90-degree rotation and a half-period Coulomb shift, so that interlayer Josephson tunneling is frustrated; if this structural picture or the assumed smallness of the interlayer coupling is wrong, the flagship experimental evidence for the PDW weakens.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The charge-density-wave, spin-density-wave, and nematic phases of cuprates are vestigial or induced orders of a common PDW mother state, so their comparable critical temperatures are expected rather than accidental.
  • The anomalous dynamical layer decoupling of La$_{2-x}$Ba$_x$CuO$_4$ at $x=1/8$ follows from the symmetry of the PDW on the LTT crystal structure, with Josephson tunneling frustrated while quartet tunneling survives.
  • The PDW supports half-vortices carrying magnetic flux $\Phi_0/2=hc/4e$, a distinctive experimental signature accessible to local SQUID magnetometry.
  • In two dimensions, thermal melting of the PDW proceeds through Kosterlitz–Thouless transitions into vestigial CDW, nematic, and charge-$4e$ superconducting phases, avoiding the fine-tuning problem of competing-order Landau theories.
  • Microscopic numerics on the $t$-$J$ model place the uniform $d$-wave superconductor and the PDW at nearly equal energy, so small changes in model parameters can select between them.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A testable extension is to search for the half-flux-quantum signature in other layered superconductors with similar stacking, not only in the lanthanum cuprates.
  • If the PDW is a mother state, disorder that destroys its long-range order should preferentially leave a uniform charge-$4e$ superconductor behind; flux-quantization measurements near a disordered PDW sample could probe this.
  • The Landau-theory relation $\rho_{2Q}\sim\Delta_{-Q}^*\Delta_Q$ implies that the $2Q$ charge-order amplitude should track the PDW amplitude as temperature, field, or doping is varied, providing a direct quantitative check in vortex-halo spectroscopy.
  • The same intertwined-order logic could be applied to other materials with reported PDW-like states, such as kagome superconductors and UTe$_2$; comparing their half-vortex and daughter-order signatures would test whether a common microscopic origin is plausible.
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Referee Report

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Summary. This paper is a personal review, based on the author's Feenberg Medal talk, of the intertwined-orders framework for high-temperature superconductors. It argues that the complex phase diagrams of cuprates and other quantum materials — with d-wave superconductivity, charge/spin density waves, and nematic order — should be understood not as fine-tuned competing instabilities but as manifestations of a common microscopic physics, with the pair-density wave (PDW) as the prototypical intertwined state. The paper develops the Landau-Ginzburg theory of the unidirectional PDW, its topological excitations (half-vortices, double dislocations, FF halos), the vestigial orders (charge-4e superconductivity, CDW, nematic) that arise on melting, and the thermal phase diagram in two dimensions using a Kosterlitz-Thouless treatment. It closes with a brief survey of microscopic model studies, noting that analytical and numerical treatments remain largely intractable. The paper is not a derivation of the common-origin hypothesis but a phenomenological synthesis, drawing on the author's extensive prior work.

Significance. If the intertwined-orders picture is correct, it offers a unified explanation of the cuprate phase diagram and has generated falsifiable predictions, including half-quantum flux vortices, charge-4e superconductivity, and daughter CDW order with wave vector Q or 2Q. The paper's strengths are its symmetry-based Landau-Ginzburg and KT analyses, which are parameter-free in the sense that they rely only on symmetry and topological charges, and its careful, well-cited survey of experimental evidence from LBCO transport, neutron scattering, STM, and X-ray studies. It also honestly lists the limitations: microscopic models are acknowledged to be intractable, and the common-origin claim is presented as a suggestion rather than a derived result. The quantitative plausibility of the key structural assumption underlying the flagship LBCO layer-decoupling evidence is, however, not addressed, which weakens the central example.

major comments (2)
  1. [Section VI.B, Figs. 10-11] The dynamical layer decoupling in La2-xBaxCuO4 is presented as the flagship experimental evidence for a bulk PDW, but the explanation rests on a specific LTT structural scenario: adjacent CuO2 planes are orthorhombic and rotated by 90 degrees, Coulomb repulsion forces a half-period shift between like-oriented planes, the unit cell becomes four layers along c, and the only symmetry-allowed Josephson couplings connect planes that are 'extremely far from each other' and hence 'essentially negligible.' No quantitative estimate of the interlayer tunneling suppression is provided, and the paper does not discuss what happens if the real crystal structure differs from this registry. Since the Josephson frustration is the core of the explanation, the review should either cite and summarize the quantitative structural and transport evidence for this stacking and for the suppression factor, or explicitly flag the assumption as a model-dependent conjecture. As written, the flagship case is supported by an unquantified assertion.
  2. [Section VII and Discussion] The paper's central claim, stated near the end of Section VI, is that many observed phases 'may arise from common origin and originate from the same microscopic physics.' Yet Section VII admits that microscopic models are analytically intractable and that the only known controlled PDW realizations occur in quasi-1D systems or with interactions outside the BCS regime (Refs. [136,137]). This means the common-origin hypothesis is currently a phenomenological conjecture, not a derived result. The paper would be strengthened by an explicit statement that the 'intertwined orders' framework is a symmetry-based organizing principle that is consistent with, but not proven by, the available microscopic calculations. Without such a statement, a reader may conflate the rigorous Landau/KT consequences with the unproven microscopic conjecture.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract contains a typo: 'Here I discus the phenomenology' should read 'Here I discuss the phenomenology.'
  2. [Section V, Eq. (5.1)] The text after Eq. (5.1) contains the broken reference 'Eq.eqrefeq:competing' which should be formatted as Eq. (5.1) or the appropriate label.
  3. [Figure 16 caption] The caption refers to the 'black straight line' for vortex proliferation, but the text in Section VI.E refers to the 'blue line' for the same transition; the color coding should be made consistent.
  4. [Section IV] There is a typo in the sentence about the Pomeranchuk nematic: 'expect at the quantum phase transition' should be 'except at the quantum phase transition.'
  5. [References] Several key experimental and theoretical references are cited as 'unpublished' or 'in preparation' (Refs. [100], [101], [104], [106], [145]). The paper should indicate, where possible, whether these works have been peer-reviewed or posted as preprints, so readers can assess the maturity of the evidence.
  6. [Section VI.D, Eq. (6.20)] The fugacity terms for the half-vortex operators are written as cos(πϑ)cos(πφ); a brief justification of this product form, rather than a sum of cosines, would help readers unfamiliar with the dual-field formulation.

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No significant circularity: the paper's Landau-Ginzburg and Kosterlitz-Thouless arguments are symmetry-based, and the central claims are anchored by independent experiments and numerical studies.

full rationale

This paper is a perspective/review that develops a Landau-Ginzburg theory of pair-density-wave (PDW) states and uses it to organize the cuprate phase diagram. The load-bearing derivations are parameter-free symmetry arguments: the trilinear couplings (Eqs. 6.3, 6.6, 6.7), the composite order parameters (Eqs. 6.4, 6.5), the topological charge assignments (Eqs. 6.8-6.13), and the KT scaling dimensions (Eqs. 6.18-6.22) all follow from the assumed order-parameter algebra and symmetry principles, not from values fitted to the data being 'predicted.' The paper does not fit parameters to a subset of observations and then call the result a prediction. The flagship LBCO example relies on a structural hypothesis about the LTT stacking (planes rotated by 90 degrees, half-period-shifted stripes, four-layer c-axis cell) and an assertion that the allowed interplane Josephson coupling is negligible; this is an assumption that could be wrong, and the paper does not quantify it, but it is not circular: the symmetry argument takes the stacking as input and derives the frustration. The extensive self-citations are to the author's own prior proposals and reviews, but the central claim of 'intertwined orders' is supported by independent experiments (transport, neutron scattering, STM, X-ray) and by numerical simulations of t-J and Hubbard-type models by other groups (Refs. 86, 87, 130-133, 140-143). No step in the paper reduces, by definition or by construction, to its own input, and no 'uniqueness theorem' from the authors is invoked to forbid alternatives. The paper also candidly notes limitations, such as the difficulty of microscopic models and the fact that fractional-flux predictions remain untested. Overall, there is no significant circularity; the framework is presented as an organizing hypothesis with testable consequences, not as a closed self-justifying loop.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 3 invented entities

The ledger lists six things the central picture leans on that are not derived in this paper: the Landau-Ginzburg description of the PDW, the KT marginality criterion, Mermin-Wagner, Imry-Ma/Efetov-Larkin disorder, the specific LTT stacking motif of LBCO, and the interpretive premise that comparable critical temperatures imply a common microscopic origin. No numbers are fitted to data anywhere in the paper, so the free-parameter list is empty. The three invented entities are the PDW, the charge-4e condensate, and the half-vortex; all appear in prior literature and all carry experimental handles.

assumptions (6)
  • domain assumption Landau-Ginzburg free energies of the form Eq. (6.2) with U(1)xU(1) symmetry capture the long-wavelength physics of the PDW.
    Used throughout Section VI.C-E to define phases, topological charges, and the 2D phase diagram; amplitude fluctuations are integrated out without proof.
  • standard math Kosterlitz-Thouless energy-entropy criterion with marginality when the scaling dimension equals the spatial dimensionality, Eq. (6.22).
    Basis for the phase diagram in Fig. 16, including the claimed avoidance of fine tuning in two dimensions.
  • standard math Mermin-Wagner theorem prevents true continuous symmetry breaking in two dimensions, so order is quasi-long-range with power-law correlations.
    Invoked in Section VI.E to justify the critical low-temperature phase described by Eqs. (6.15)-(6.18).
  • standard math Imry-Ma and Efetov-Larkin random-field arguments destroy long-range CDW/SDW order below four spatial dimensions for continuous symmetries.
    Invoked in Section III to explain why charge and spin stripe orders are often fluctuating rather than static.
  • domain assumption The LTT crystal structure of La2-xBaxCuO4 has consecutive CuO2 planes rotated by 90 degrees, a half-period shift from Coulomb repulsion, and a four-layer c-axis unit cell.
    Load-bearing for the layer-decoupling explanation in Section VI.A-B; taken from the materials literature and Ref 84.
  • ad hoc to paper Comparable critical temperatures over broad doping ranges indicate a common microscopic origin rather than proximity to a multicritical point.
    This is the defining interpretation of the intertwined-orders program; it is asserted as the most natural reading of experimental phase diagrams, not derived.
invented entities (3)
  • Pair-density wave (PDW): finite-momentum, self-organized, time-reversal-invariant superconducting order. independent evidence
    purpose: Explains dynamical layer decoupling in La2-xBaxCuO4 and acts as the mother order whose melting generates CDW and charge-4e phases.
    Proposed by the author and collaborators in Ref 84; reviewed rather than introduced here. Falsifiable handles include half-flux vortices, sin(2Delta-phi) Josephson tunneling, and the period-8 vortex-halo charge order.
  • Charge-4e superconductor (quartet condensate). independent evidence
    purpose: Vestigial superconducting phase that survives after PDW order melts; carries zero momentum and hosts half-vortices.
    Predicted from the composite order parameter Eq. (6.5); hc/4e flux quantization is a testable prediction, though untested.
  • Half-vortices with half-quantum flux. independent evidence
    purpose: Topological defects of the PDW with charges (1/2,1/2) that mediate the PDW to nematic transition.
    Local SQUID magnetometry could detect pi flux; the paper explicitly marks this prediction as untested.

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Complex phase diagrams are generic feature of quantum materials that display high temperature superconductivity. In addition to d-wave superconductivity (or other unconventional states), these phase diagrams typically include various forms of charge-ordered phases, including charge-density-waves and/or spin-density waves, and electronic nematic states. In most cases these phases have critical temperatures comparable in magnitude to that of the superconducting state, and appear in a "pseudo-gap" regime. In these systems the high temperature state is not a good metal with well-defined quasiparticles but a "strange metal". These states typically arise from doping a strongly correlated Mott insulator. With my collaborators we have identified these behaviors as a problem with "Intertwined Orders". A Pair-density wave is a type of superconducting state which embodies the physics of intertwined orders. Here I discus the phenomenology of intertwined orders and the quantum materials that are known to display these behaviors.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1. Schematic temperature-dependence [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. FIG. 2. The Meissner effect: qualitative temperature-dependence of the critical magnetic field [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. FIG. 3. Cooper pair [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. Schematic phase diagram for a copper-oxide superconductor. The regions are not drawn at scale. Here [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. Schematic phase diagram of electronic liquid crystal phases in a doped Mott insulator. The regions are not drawn [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. Spontaneous distortion of the Fermi surface and quadrupolar charge distribution at a Pomeranchuk instability of a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7. Quadrupolar spin polarization of the nematic-spin-nematic state, now known as an “altermagnet”. Here [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: FIG. 8. Schematic phase diagram for competing CDW and superconductivity (SC) orders. Here [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: FIG. 9. Experimental temperature vs doping phase diagram of La [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: FIG. 10. Qualitative picture of the PDW state proposed for La [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: FIG. 11. Qualitative picture of the PDW on the LTT crystal structure of La [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: FIG. 12. The half-vortex. See text for details.) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_12.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: FIG. 13. The double dislocation). See text for details.) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_13.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: FIG. 14. Structure of the half vortex of a PDW: at the core of the half-vortex lim [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_14.png]
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Figure 15. Figure 15: FIG. 15. Abrikosov vortex halo and PDW order. The dashed red curve is the (normalized) amplitude of the uniform SC order [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_15.png]
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Figure 16. Figure 16: FIG. 16. Phase diagram of the thermal melting of a unidirectional incommensurate PDW. in two dimensions. Here the red [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_16.png]

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