arXiv:1007.4711 · Physical Review B
Melting of stripe phases and its signature in the single-particle spectral function
Marcin Raczkowski, Fakher F. Assaad
Abstract
Motivated by the recent experimental data [J. Fink, E. Schierle, E. Weschke, J. Geck, D. Hawthorn, V. Soltwisch, H. Wadati, H.-H. Wu, H. A. D\"urr, N. Wizent, B. B\"uchner, and G. A. Sawatzky, Phys. Rev. B 79, 100502 (2009)] indicating the existence of a pure stripe charge order over unprecedently wide temperature range in ${\text{La}}_{1.8\ensuremath{-}x}{\text{Eu}}_{0.2}{\text{Sr}}_{x}{\text{CuO}}_{4}$, we investigate the temperature-induced melting of the metallic stripe phase. In spite of taking into account local dynamic correlations within a real-space dynamical mean-field theory of the Hubbard model, we observe a mean-field-like melting of the stripe order irrespective of the choice of the next-nearest-neighbor hopping. The temperature dependence of the single-particle spectral function shows the stripe induced formation of a flat band around the antinodal points accompanied by the opening a gap in the nodal direction.