International Workshop on Electronic Crystals
S. Brazovskii, P. Monceau and N. Kirova
J. Phys. IV France 131 (2005) 81-82
DOI: 10.1051/jp4:2005131018

The ordered limit of superconductivity

V. Cvetkovic¹, J. Zaanen^{2, 1}, Z. Nussinov³ and S. Mukhin<sup>4

1</sup>  Instituut Lorentz voor de theoretische natuurkunde, Universiteit Leiden, PO Box 9506, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
²  Department of Physics, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
³  Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63160-4899, USA
⁴  Theoretical Physics Department, Moscow Institute for Steel and Alloys, 119991 Moscow, Russia

Abstract
The conventional understanding of superconductivity rests heavily on the physics of Bose gases. In the high temperature superconductors, the superfluid is very strongly correlated being on the verge of solidifying into a stripe phase. Inspired by this problem, we employ quantum field theory techniques to construct the limit of "optimally ordered" superconductivity. These superconductors can be viewed as quantum elastic entities different from normal crystals in the sense that they lost their rigidity against shear stress as dual Bose condensates of quantum dislocations. Exciting new physical properties emerge which can, in principle, be measured although they invoke unconventional experiments: quantum liquid crystalline orders, oscillations of magnetic screening currents, and new collective modes found in the dynamical electromagnetic response.

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