Hackl, AndreasVojta, MatthiasSachdev, Subir2012-01-182010Hackl, Andreas, Matthias Vojta, and Subir Sachdev. 2010. Quasiparticle Nernst effect in stripe-ordered cuprates. Physical Review B 81(4): 045102.1550-235Xhttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:7697115Experiments on underdoped cuprate superconductors suggest an intricate relation between the normal-state Nernst effect and stripe order: The Nernst signal appears enhanced near \(\frac{1}{8}\) hole doping and its onset temperature scales with the stripe-ordering temperature over some range of doping. Here, we employ a phenomenological quasiparticle model to calculate the normal state Nernst signal in the presence of stripe order. We find that Fermi pockets caused by translational symmetry breaking lead to a strongly enhanced Nernst signal with a sign depending on the modulation period of the ordered state and other details of the Fermi surface. This implies differences between antiferromagnetic and charge-only stripes We compare our findings with recent data from \(La_{1.6-x}Nd_{0.4}Sr_xCuO_4\) and \(YBa_2Cu_3O_y\).en-USstrongly correlated electronssuperconductivityJournal Article2012-01-1810.1103/PhysRevB.81.045102