Electronic interactions in strongly correlated systems: what is the glue for high temperature superconductivity?

Tonica Valla

doi:10.1117/12.621626

30 August 2005 Electronic interactions in strongly correlated systems: what is the glue for high temperature superconductivity?

Tonica Valla

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Proceedings Volume 5932, Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: Physics and Nanoengineering; 593203 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.621626
Event: Optics and Photonics 2005, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Recent observation of a "kink" in single-particle dispersion in photoemission experiments on cuprate superconductors has re-initiated a heated debate over the issue of a boson that "mediates" the pairing in cuprates. If the "kink" is indeed caused by interaction with a bosonic excitation, then there are two possible candidates: phonons and spin fluctuations. Here, the role of anti-ferromagnetic spin fluctuations in shaping the phase diagram of cuprate superconductors will be discussed. By using the local (momentum-integrated) dynamic spin susceptibility, recently measured in neutron scattering experiments to high energies, the electronic self-energies are calculated that agree in many aspects with those measured directly in angular resolved photoemission and optical spectroscopies. The spin fluctuations therefore seem to play a role typically played by phonons in renormalizing single particles. The key question emerging from this picture is whether the coupling detected in angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) reflects the mediating boson, i.e. whether the spin fluctuations may be responsible for superconducting pairing.

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Tonica Valla "Electronic interactions in strongly correlated systems: what is the glue for high temperature superconductivity?", Proc. SPIE 5932, Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: Physics and Nanoengineering, 593203 (30 August 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.621626

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