Laliberté, F.Chang, Johan JuulDoiron-Leyraud, N.Hassinger, E.Daou, R.Rondeau, M.Ramshaw, B. J.Liang, R.Bonn, D. A.Hardy, W. N.Pyon, S.Takayama, T.Takagi, H.Sheikin, I.Malone, L.Proust, C.Behnia, K.Taillefer, Louis2012-11-082012-11-082012-11-08201110.1038/ncomms1440https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/86750The origin of pairing in a superconductor resides in the underlying normal state. In the cuprate high-temperature superconductor YBa2Cu 3Oy (YBCO), application of a magnetic field to suppress superconductivity reveals a ground state that appears to break the translational symmetry of the lattice, pointing to some density-wave order. Here we use a comparative study of thermoelectric transport in the cuprates YBCO and La 1.8-xEu0.2SrxCuO4(Eu-LSCO) to show that the two materials exhibit the same process of Fermi-surface reconstruction as a function of temperature and doping. The fact that in Eu-LSCO this reconstruction coexists with spin and charge modulations that break translational symmetry shows that stripe order is the generic non-superconducting ground state of hole-doped cuprates. © 2011 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.text::journal::journal article::research article