title: Magnetic field induced charge and spin instabilities in cuprate superconductors.
abstract: A d-wave superconductor, subject to strong phase fluctuations, is known to suffer an antiferromagnetic instability closely related to the chiral symmetry breaking in ( 2+1)-dimensional quantum electrodynamics ( QED3). Based on this idea we formulate a " QED3 in a box" theory of local instabilities of a d-wave superconductor in the vicinity of a single pinned vortex undergoing quantum fluctuations. As a generic outcome we find an incommensurate 2D spin density wave forming in the neighborhood of a vortex with a concomitant "checkerboard" pattern in the local electronic density of states, in agreement with recent neutron scattering and tunneling spectroscopy measurements.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z1.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Franz
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Sheehy
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tesanović