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Shadow features and shadow bands in the paramagnetic state of cuprate superconductors
The conditions for the precursors of antiferromagnetic bands in cuprate
superconductors are studied using weak-to-intermediate coupling approach. It is
shown that there are, in fact, three different precursor effects due to the
proximity to antiferromagnetic instability: i) the shadow band which associated
with new pole in the Green's function ii) the dispersive shadow feature due to
the thermal enhancement of the scattering rate and iii) the non-dispersive
shadow feature due to quantum spin fluctuation that exist only in
scan of the spectral function . I found
that dispersive shadow peaks in can exist at finite
temperature T in the renormalized classical regime, when ,
( is the characteristic energy of
spin fluctuations, is the thermal wave length of electron). In
contrast at zero temperature, only non-dispersive shadow feature in has been found. I found, however, that the latter
effect is always very small. The theory predict no shadow effects in the
optimally doped materials. The conditions for which shadow peaks can be
observed in photoemission are discussed.Comment: 6 pages, REVTEX, 2 ps figures, version to be published in PR
Collective Spin Fluctuation Mode and Raman Scattering in Superconducting Cuprates
Although the low frequency electronic Raman response in the superconducting
state of the cuprates can be largely understood in terms of a d-wave energy
gap, a long standing problem has been an explanation for the spectra observed
in the polarization orientations. We present calculations which
suggest that the peak position of the observed spectra is due to a
collective spin fluctuation mode.Comment: 4 pages, 5 eps figure
Exact Bond Ordered Ground State for the Transition Between the Band and the Mott Insulator
We derive an effective Hamiltonian for an ionic Hubbard chain,
valid for , where is the hopping, the Coulomb
repulsion, and the charge transfer energy. is the minimal
model for describing the transition from the band insulator (BI) () and the Mott insulator (MI) (). Using spin-particle
transformations (Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{86}, 1082 (2001)), we map
into an SU(3) antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model whose
exact ground state is known. In this way, we show rigorously that a
spontaneously dimerized insulating ferroelectric phase appears in the
transition region between the BI and MI
Stripe orientation in an anisotropic t-J model
The tilt pattern of the CuO_6 octahedra in the LTT phase of the cuprate
superconductors leads to planar anisotropies for the exchange coupling and
hopping integrals. Here, we show that these anisotropies provide a possible
structural mechanism for the orientation of stripes. A t_x-t_y-J_x-J_y model
thus serves as an effective Hamiltonian to describe stripe formation and
orientation in LTT-phase cuprates.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figure
Can Short-Range Interactions Mediate a Bose Metal Phase in 2D?
We show here based on a 1-loop scaling analysis that short-range interactions
are strongly irrelevant perturbations near the insulator-superconductor (IST)
quantum critical point. The lack of any proof that short-range interactions
mediate physics which is present only in strong coupling leads us to conclude
that short-range interactions are strictly irrelevant near the IST quantum
critical point. Hence, we argue that no new physics, such as the formation of a
uniform Bose metal phase can arise from an interplay between on-site and
nearest-neighbour interactions.Comment: 3 pages, 1 .eps file. SUbmitted to Phys. Rev.
A Consistent Picture of Electronic Raman Scattering and Infrared Conductivity in the Cuprates
Calculations are presented for electronic Raman scattering and infrared
conductivity in a superconductor including the effects of
elastic scattering via anisotropic impurities and inelastic spin-fluctuation
scattering. A consistent description of experiments on optimally doped Bi-2212
is made possible by considering the effects of correlations on both inelastic
and elastic scattering.Comment: 4 pages Revtex, 5 embedded eps file
Disorder Induced Stripes in d-Wave Superconductors
Stripe phases are observed experimentally in several copper-based high-Tc
superconductors near 1/8 hole doping. However, the specific characteristics may
vary depending on the degree of dopant disorder and the presence or absence of
a low- temperature tetragonal phase. On the basis of a Hartree-Fock decoupling
scheme for the t-J model we discuss the diverse behavior of stripe phases. In
particular the effect of inhomogeneities is investigated in two distinctly
different parameter regimes which are characterized by the strength of the
interaction. We observe that small concen- trations of impurities or vortices
pin the unidirectional density waves, and dopant disorder is capable to
stabilize a stripe phase in parameter regimes where homogeneous phases are
typically favored in clean systems. The momentum-space results exhibit
universal features for all coexisting density-wave solutions, nearly unchanged
even in strongly disordered systems. These coexisting solutions feature
generically a full energy gap and a particle-hole asymmetry in the density of
states.Comment: 28 pages, 8 figure
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