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Phonon softening: "keyhole" into dynamic stripe-phase

2005/07/13 by С. И. Мухин, Sergei I. Mukhin, Mukhin, Sergei I.
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #Superconducting Materials and Applications #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con) #cond-mat.str-el #cond-mat.supr-con

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0507294

12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Physical Review B (May 2005), added references

openalex publication_date 2005/07/13 · arxiv created 2005/07/18 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The highly distinctive phonon self-energy dependences on the wave vector, calculated respectively for the static and dynamic stripe phase models of the underdoped cuprates are presented. The negative values of the real part of the on-stripe holes polarization loop lead to appearance of localized vibration states in the presence of well-separated stripes, relevant for underdoped cuprates. The localized modes split below the bare optical phonon frequencies exhibiting strong ``softening effect''. The calculated gap between localized and propagating phonon frequencies is practically doping independent in accord with the recent neutron measurements. The derived wave vector dependence of the phonon softening nicely coincides with anomalously shallow experimental curve in high-Tc cuprates when stripe meandering is taken into account. Co-centering of the theoretical and experimental curves implicates statistics of on-stripe holes.

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