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Checkerboard density of states in strong-coupling superconductors

Superconductivity 2007-05-23 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

The Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) equations are solved in the strong-coupling limit, where real-space (preformed) pairs bose-condense with finite center-of-mass momenta. There are two energy scales in this regime, a temperature independent incoherent gap Δp\Delta_p and a temperature dependent coherent gap Δc(T)\Delta_c (T), modulated in real space. The single-particle density of states (DOS) reveals checkerboard modulations similar to the tunnelling DOS in cuprates.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0407401,
  title  = {Checkerboard density of states in strong-coupling superconductors},
  author = {A. S. Alexandrov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0407401},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure