Momentum-Resolved Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta

R. Cortes; L. Rettig; Y. Yoshida; H. Eisaki; M. Wolf; U. Bovensiepen

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.097002

Momentum-Resolved Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta

Superconductivity 2011-10-18 v1

Authors: R. Cortes , L. Rettig , Y. Yoshida , H. Eisaki , M. Wolf , U. Bovensiepen

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Abstract

The non-equilibrium state of the high-Tc superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta and its ultrafast dynamics have been investigated by femtosecond time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy well below the critical temperature. We probe optically excited quasiparticles at different electron momenta along the Fermi surface and detect metastable quasiparticles near the antinode. Their decay through e-e scattering is blocked by a phase space restricted to the nodal region. The lack of momentum dependence in the decay rates is in agreement with relaxation dominated by Cooper pair recombination in a boson bottleneck limit.

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high-Tc superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta ultrafast dynamics time-resolved photoemission quasiparticle dynamics momentum resolution Cooper pair recombination boson bottleneck

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@article{arxiv.1011.1171,
  title  = {Momentum-Resolved Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta},
  author = {R. Cortes and L. Rettig and Y. Yoshida and H. Eisaki and M. Wolf and U. Bovensiepen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.1171},
  year   = {2011}
}

Momentum-Resolved Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta

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