Hysteresis and Noise from Electronic Nematicity in High-Temperature Superconductors
Hysteresis and Noise from Electronic Nematicity in High-Temperature Superconductors
An electron nematic is a translationally invariant state which spontaneously breaks the discrete rotational symmetry of a host crystal. In a clean square lattice, the electron nematic has two preferred orientations, while dopant disorder favors one or the other orientations locally. In this way, the electron nematic in a host …