Phase fluctuations and spectral properties of underdoped cuprates

1998/05/31 by Marcel Franz, M. Franz, Andrew J. Millis +1 · 9 citations
Chemistry · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds #Magnetism in coordination complexes #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #cond-mat.str-el #cond-mat.supr-con

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.58.14572

published as PRB 58, 14572 (1998). · 8 pages REVTeX, 3 figures included. Final version to appear in Dec. 1 PRB; extensive discussion of the validity of the model and other clarifying remarks added

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Abstract

We consider the effect of classical phase fluctuations on the quasiparticle spectra of underdoped high-T_c cuprate superconductors in the pseudogap regime above T_c. We show that photoemission and tunneling spectroscopy data are well accounted for by a simple model in which mean-field d-wave quasiparticles are semiclassically coupled to supercurrents induced by fluctuating unbound vortex-antivortex pairs. We argue that the data imply that transverse phase fluctuations are important at temperatures above T_c, while longitudinal fluctuations are unimportant at all temperatures.

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