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    {
        "id": "authors:jegm7-9ak49",
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        "collection_id": "jegm7-9ak49",
        "cite_using_url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/jegm7-9ak49",
        "type": "article",
        "title": "Thermal SU(2) lattice gauge theory for intertwined orders and hole pockets in the cuprates",
        "author": [
            {
                "family_name": "Pandey",
                "given_name": "Harshit"
            },
            {
                "family_name": "Christos",
                "given_name": "Maine",
                "orcid": "0000-0003-0116-5977",
                "clpid": "Christos-Maine"
            },
            {
                "family_name": "Bonetti",
                "given_name": "Pietro M."
            },
            {
                "family_name": "Shanker",
                "given_name": "Ravi"
            },
            {
                "family_name": "Sharma",
                "given_name": "Sayantan"
            },
            {
                "family_name": "Sachdev",
                "given_name": "Subir",
                "orcid": "0000-0002-2432-7070"
            }
        ],
        "abstract": "<p>The cuprate pseudogap phase displays Fermi arc spectral weight in photoemission and scanning tunneling microscopy, while recent magnetotransport observations yield evidence for the existence of hole pockets of fractional area p /8, where p is the doping density. We present a Monte Carlo study of a thermal SU(2) lattice gauge theory which can reconcile these observations. Our simulation includes the SU(2) gauge field U of a &pi; -flux spin liquid, and a SU(2) fundamental charge e Higgs boson B . There is a Yukawa coupling between B , the fermionic spinons of the spin liquid, and the hole pockets of a fractionalized Fermi liquid. At the higher temperatures of the pseudogap, the finite-doping sign problem is evaded by including only thermal fluctuations of B and U , while the fermions are diagonalized exactly for each boson background. Our study also yields a fractionalized description of intertwined orders at lower temperatures, including the onset of d-wave superconductivity by the expulsion of vortices with flux h /(2e), each with charge-order halos. We discuss conditions under which quantum oscillations in the density of states from hole pockets of area p/8 could be observable in clean under-hole-doped cuprates.</p>",
        "doi": "10.1073/pnas.2606117123",
        "pmcid": "PMC13142971",
        "issn": "0027-8424",
        "publisher": "National Academy of Sciences",
        "publication": "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences",
        "publication_date": "2026-05-05",
        "series_number": "18",
        "volume": "123",
        "issue": "18",
        "pages": "e2606117123"
    }
]