427 research outputs found
Photoemission kinks and phonons in cuprates
One of the possible mechanisms of high Tc superconductivity is Cooper pairing
with the help of bosons, which change the slope of the electronic dispersion as
observed by photoemission. Giustino et al. calculated that in the high
temperature superconductor La1.85Sr0.15CuO4 crystal lattice vibrations
(phonons) should have a negligible effect on photoemission spectra and
concluded that phonons do not play an important role. We show that the
calculations employed by Giustino et al. fail to reproduce huge influence of
electron-phonon coupling on important phonons observed in experiments. Thus one
would expect these calculations to similarly fail in explaining the role of
electron-phonon coupling for the electronic dispersion.Comment: To appear in Nature as a Brief Communiction Arisin
Interplay between charge-lattice interaction and strong electron correlations in cuprates: phonon anomaly and spectral kinks
We investigate the interplay between strong electron correlations and
charge-lattice interaction in cuprates. The coupling between half breathing
bond stretching phonons and doped holes in the t-t'-J model is studied by
limited phonon basis exact diagonalization method. Nonadiabatic electron-phonon
interaction leads to the splitting of the phonon spectral function at half-way
to the zone boundary at and
to low energy kink feature in the electron dispersion, in agreement with
experimental observations. Another kink due to strong electron correlation
effects is observed at higher energy, depending on the strength of the
charge-lattice coupling.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Electron-phonon anomaly related to charge stripes: static stripe phase versus optimally-doped superconducting La1.85Sr0.15CuO4
Inelastic neutron scattering was used to study the Cu-O bond-stretching
vibrations in optimally doped La1.85Sr0.15CuO4 (Tc = 35 K) and in two other
cuprates showing static stripe order at low temperatures, i.e.
La1.48Nd0.4Sr0.12CuO4 and La1.875Ba0.125CuO4. All three compounds exhibit a
very similar phonon anomaly, which is not predicted by conventional band
theory. It is argued that the phonon anomaly reflects a coupling to charge
inhomogeneities in the form of stripes, which remain dynamic in superconducting
La1.85Sr0.15CuO4 down to the lowest temperatures. These results show that the
phonon effect indicating stripe formation is not restricted to a narrow region
of the phase diagram around the so-called 1/8 anomaly but occurs in optimally
doped samples as well.Comment: to appear in J. Low Temp. Phy
Thermodynamics and Evaporation of the 2+1-D Black Hole
The properties of canonical and microcanonical ensembles of a black hole with
thermal radiation and the problem of black hole evaporation in 3-D are studied.
In 3-D Einstein-anti-de Sitter gravity we have two relevant mass scales,
, and , which are particularly relevant
for the evaporation problem. It is argued that in the `weak coupling' regime
, the end point of an evaporating black hole formed
with an initial mass , is likely to be a stable remnant in equilibrium
with thermal radiation. The relevance of these results for the information
problem and for the issue of back reaction is discussed. In the `strong
coupling' regime, a full fledged quantum gravity
treatment is required. Since the total energy of thermal states in anti-de
Sitter space with reflective boundary conditions at spatial infinity is bounded
and conserved, the canonical and microcanonical ensembles are well defined. For
a given temperature or energy black hole states are locally stable. In the weak
coupling regime black hole states are more probable then pure radiation states.Comment: 11 pages, TAUP 2141/94, Late
Influence Of The Qd Luminescence Quantum Yield On Photocurrent In Qd/graphene Hybrid Structures
Photoinduced changes in luminescent and photoelectrical properties of the hybrid structure based on CdSe/ZnS QDs and multilayer graphene nanobelts were studied. It was shown that an irradiation of the structures by 365 nm mercury line in doses up to 23 J led to growth of QD luminescent quantum yield and photocurrent in the QD/graphene structures. This confirms the proximity of the rates of the QD luminescence decay and energy/charge transfer from QDs to graphene, and opens an opportunity to photoinduced control of the photoelectric response of the graphene based hybrid structures with semiconductor quantum dots.9884Conference on Nanophotonics VIAPR 03-07, 2016Brussels, BELGIU
C-axis electronic Raman scattering in Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+\delta}
We report a c-axis-polarized electronic Raman scattering study of
Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+\delta} single crystals. In the normal state, a resonant
electronic continuum extends to 1.5 eV and gains significant intensity as the
incoming photon energy increases. In the superconducting state, a coherence
2\Delta peak appears around 50 meV, with a suppression of the scattering
intensity at frequencies below the peak position. The peak energy, which is
higher than that seen with in-plane polarizations, signifies distinctly
different dynamics of quasiparticle excitations created with out-of-plane
polarization.Comment: 12 pages, REVTEX, 3 postscript figure
The oral microbiome in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive individuals
This study was supported by the Higher Education Research Promotion
and National Research University Project of Thailand, Office of the
Higher Education Commission (HR1155A). This research utilized
Queen Mary’s MidPlus computational facilities, supported by QMUL
Research-IT and funded by EPSRC grant EP/K000128/1
Giant phonon anomalies and central peak due to charge density wave formation in YBaCuO
The electron-phonon interaction is a major factor influencing the competition
between collective instabilities in correlated-electron materials, but its role
in driving high-temperature superconductivity in the cuprates remains poorly
understood. We have used high-resolution inelastic x-ray scattering to monitor
low-energy phonons in YBaCuO (superconducting
K), which is close to a charge density wave (CDW) instability. Phonons in a
narrow range of momentum space around the CDW ordering vector exhibit extremely
large superconductivity-induced lineshape renormalizations. These results imply
that the electron-phonon interaction has sufficient strength to generate
various anomalies in electronic spectra, but does not contribute significantly
to Cooper pairing. In addition, a quasi-elastic "central peak" due to CDW
nanodomains is observed in a wide temperature range above and below ,
suggesting that the gradual onset of a spatially inhomogeneous CDW domain state
with decreasing temperature is a generic feature of the underdoped cuprates
Anomalous Self-Energy Effects of the B_1g Phonon in Y_{1-x}(Pr,Ca)_xBa_2Cu_3O_7 Films
In Raman spectra of cuprate superconductors the gap shows up both directly,
via a redistribution of the electronic background, the so-called "2Delta
peaks", and indirectly, e.g. via the renormalization of phononic excitations.
We use a model that allows us to study the redistribution and the related
phonon self-energy effects simultaneously. We apply this model to the B_1g
phonon of Y_{1-x}(Pr,Ca)_xBa_2Cu_3O_7 films, where Pr or Ca substitution
enables us to investigate under- and overdoped samples. While various
self-energy effects can be explained by the strength and energy of the 2\Delta
peaks, anomalies remain. We discuss possible origins of these anomalies.Comment: 6 pages including 4 figure
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