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Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy At Ultra-low Temperatures
Published on: October 9, 2012
Remnant fermi surfaces in photoemission
1Physics Department and Barnett Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Abstract:
Recent experiments have introduced a new concept for analyzing the photoemission spectra of correlated electrons-the remnant Fermi surface (rFs), which can be measured even in systems which lack a conventional Fermi surface. Here, we analyze the rFs in a number of interacting electron models, and find that the results fall into two classes. For systems with particle-particle (pairing) instabilities, the rFs is an accurate replica of the true Fermi surface. In the presence of particle-hole (nesting) instabilities, the rFs is a map of the resulting superlattice Brillouin zone. The results suggest that the gap in Ca2CuO2Cl2 is of particle-hole origin.
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