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International Journal of Modern Physics B

UNIFORM COULOMB FIELD AS ORIGIN OF "FERMI ARCS" IN AN ANISOTROPIC BOSON-FERMION GAS MIXTURE

T. A. Mamedov, MANUEL DE LLANO

Published Jun 4, 2013• 5 citations
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Abstract

A recent boson-fermion (BF) binary gas mixture model is extended to include: (i) anisotropy of the BF interaction and (ii) momentum-independent Coulomb repulsions. It is applied to account for the peculiarities of the pseudogap observed as function of absolute temperature T and concentration x of holes doped onto the CuO 2 planes and to study the further transformation of the pseudogap into the real superconducting gap, as T is lowered. Using two-time Green functions it is shown that pair breakings depend on the separation between the boson and fermion spectra of the BF mixture. As this separation shrinks, the pair-breaking ability of the Coulomb interaction weakens and disappears at the BEC T c , i.e., at the T below which a complete softening of bosons occurs. Simultaneous inclusion of both effects (i) and (ii) produces, as T is lowered, "islands" in momentum space of incoherent Cooper pairs above the Fermi sea. These islands grow upon further cooling and merge together just before T c is reached. The new extended BF model predicts a pseudogap phase in 2D high-T c superconductors with lines of points, or loci, on the Fermi surface along which the pseudogap vanishes. This explains the origin of T-dependent "Fermi arcs" observed in ARPES experiments.

DOI
10.1142/s0217979213470024

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Despite the intense theoretical and experimental effort, an understanding of the superconducting pairing mechanism of the high-temperature superconductors is still lacking. An additional puzzle is the unknown connection between the superconducting gap and the so-called pseudogap which is a central property of the most unusual normal state. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements have revealed a gap-like behavior on parts of the Fermi surface, leaving a non-gapped segment known as Fermi arc around the diagonal of the Brillouin zone. Starting from the ttt-JJJ model, in this paper we present a microscopic approach to investigate physical properties of the pseudogap phase in the framework of a novel renormalization scheme called PRM. This approach is based on a stepwise elimination of high-energy transitions using unitary transformations. We arrive at a renormalized 'free' Hamiltonian for correlated electrons. The ARPES spectral function along the Fermi surface turns out to be in good agreement with experiment: We find well-defined excitation peaks around ω=0ω=0ω=0 near the nodal direction, which become strongly suppressed around the antinodal point. The origin of the pseudogap can be traced back to a suppression of spectral weight from incoherent excitations in a small ωωω-range around the Fermi energy. In a subsequent paper, also the supercunducting phase at moderate hole doping will be discussed within the PRM approach.
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