HTC oxides: a collusion of spin, charge and lattice

We briefly summarize a perspective on high-temperature oxide superconductors (HTC) as systems of intrinsic, functional, and connected spatial scales, with an associated set of temporal scales. We emphasize the importance of local bonding constraints, leading to a framework of coexisting short- and long-range fields, as the source of multiscale systems in HTC and many other strongly correlated materials.