Role of electronic nematicity in the interplay between s- and d-wave broken-symmetry states (Q986092)

The author studies the role of the nematic order parameter in the interplay between s- and d-wave particle-particle or particle-hole condensate states. These condensate states include d- and s-wave superconductors, d-density wave, spin-triplet d-density wave, spin density wave, and charge density wave phases. The author establishes that the nematic operator transforms d- to s-wave superconductors, spin-triplet d-density wave to (s-wave) spin-density wave, and d-density wave to (s-wave) charge-density wave operators. This can be summarized as a transformation between two different six-dimensional vectors. A generalized Ginzburg-Landau theory and further physical implications are also discussed. It is established that the transformation between the two super-spins via nematicity implies that a linear coupling between two order parameters that belong to two different vectors can be present in the Ginzburg-Landau free energy. Such a linear coupling allows induced ordering when one of them is condensed. On the other hand, when spin-density wave and nematic order coexist, a similar transformation allows an induced spin-triplet d-density wave, only when time-reversal symmetry is broken. These results are consistent with symmetry considerations.