Microscopic approach to high-temperature superconductors: Pseudogap phase

Details Microscopic approach to high-temperature superconductors: Pseudogap phase Microscopic approach to high-temperature superconductors: Pseudogap phase

2009-03-05

arxiv.org/abs/0903.0921v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

45 pages, 9 figures

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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 $t$-$J$ 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 $\omega=0$ 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 $\omega$-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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