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Fermi surface evolution in underdoped cuprates

Condensed Matter 2008-02-03 v2

Abstract

We consider a two-dimensional Fermi liquid coupled to low-energy commensurate spin fluctuations. At small coupling, the hole Fermi surface is large and centered around (π,π)(\pi,\pi). We show that as the coupling increases, the shape of the Fermi surface undergoes a substantial evolution, and at strong coupling, the hole Fermi surface consists of small pockets centered at (±π/2,±π/2)(\pm \pi/2, \pm \pi/2). At intermediate couplings, there exists a large hole Fermi surface centered at (π,π)(\pi,\pi) as well as four hole pockets, but the quasiparticle residue is small everywhere except for the pieces of the pockets which face the Γ\Gamma point. The relevance of these results to recent photoemission experiments in YBCOYBCO and Bi2212Bi2212 systems, and their relation to the Luttinger theorem are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9511138,
  title  = {Fermi surface evolution in underdoped cuprates},
  author = {Andrey V. Chubukov and Dirk K. Morr and Konstantin A. Shakhnovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9511138},
  year   = {2008}
}

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12 pages, REVtex file, 2 figures in a uuencoded, gziped file. one minor change in the tex-file