Correction to: Nature Physics https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01827-1, published online 5 December 2022

Reference 39 (Puviani, M. & Manskea, D. Quench–drive spectroscopy of cuprates. Faraday Discuss. 237, 125–147 (2022)) has been added with an explanatory note, as it contributes a potentially helpful item in the existing literature. Subsequent references have been appropriately renumbered.