Translation-Invariant Bipolarons and Charge Density Waves in High-Temperature Superconductors

Abstract

A correlation is established between the theories of superconductivity based on the concept of charge density waves (CDWs) and the translation invariant (TI) bipolaron theory. It is shown that CDWs are originated from TI-bipolaron states in the pseudogap phase due to the Kohn anomaly and form a pair density wave (PDW) for wave vectors corresponding to nesting. Emerging in the pseudogap phase, CDWs coexist with superconductivity at temperatures below those of superconducting transition, while their wave amplitudes decrease as a Bose condensate is formed from TI bipolarons, vanishing at zero temperature.