1. Kink in cuprates: the role of the low-energy density of states
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Razzoli, E., Boschini, F., Zonno, M., Na, M. X., Michiardi, M., Schneider, M., Neto, E. H. da Silva, Gorovikov, S., Zhong, R. D., Schneeloch, J., Gu, G. D., Zhdanovich, S., Mills, A. K., Levy, G., Jones, D. J., Giannetti, C., and Damascelli, A.
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Condensed Matter - Superconductivity ,Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons - Abstract
The 40-70 meV band-structure renormalization (so-called kink) in high-temperature cuprate superconductors - which has been mainly interpreted in terms of electron-boson coupling - is observed to be strongly suppressed both above the superconducting transition temperature and under optical excitation. We employ equilibrium and time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, in combination with Migdal-Eliashberg simulations, to investigate the suppression of the near-nodal kink in Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+\delta}$. We show that the $\sim$30$\%$ decrease of the kink strength across the superconducting-to-normal-state phase transition can be entirely accounted for by the filling of the superconducting gap, without additional consideration of temperature-dependent electron-boson coupling. Our findings demonstrate that consideration of changes in the density of states is essential to quantitatively account for the band structure renormalization effects in cuprates.
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- 2023