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Operator Projection Theory for Electron Differentiation in Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-07 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

Metals approaching the Mott insulator generate a new hierarchy in the electronic structure accompanied by a momentum dependent electron differentiation, beyond the Mott-Hubbard, Brinkman-Rice and Slater pictures of the Mott transition. To consider such nonlinear phenomenon, we develop an analytic nonperturbative theory based on operator projections combined with a self-consistent treatment of the low-energy excitations. This reproduces the formation of the Hubbard bands, Mott gap, spin fluctuations, mass divergence, diverging charge compressibility, and strongly renormalized flat and damped dispersion similar to angle-resolved photoemission data in high-T_c cuprates. Main structures in electronic spectra show a remarkable similarity to numerical results.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0108416,
  title  = {Operator Projection Theory for Electron Differentiation in Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors},
  author = {Shigeki Onoda and Masatoshi Imada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0108416},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, presented at ``Spectroscopies of Novel Superconductors 2001''