Fermi liquid-like behaviour of cuprates in the pseudogap phase simulated via T-dependent electron-boson spectral density

TL;DR

This study models the optical scattering rates in cuprates' pseudogap phase, showing Fermi liquid-like behavior can be explained by temperature-dependent electron-boson interactions and pseudogap effects, aiding understanding of superconductivity mechanisms.

Contribution

It introduces a T-dependent electron-boson spectral density and pseudogap model to explain Fermi liquid-like behavior in cuprates' pseudogap phase.

Findings

Fermi liquid-like behavior explained by T-dependent EBSD and pseudogap.

Optical conductivity spectra support the model.

Insights into microscopic pairing mechanisms for superconductivity.

Abstract

We investigated the temperature- and frequency-dependent optical scattering rates in the pseudogap phase of cuprates using model pseudogap and electron-boson spectral density (EBSD) functions. We obtained the scattering rates at various temperatures below and above a given pseudogap temperature using a generalized Allen's (or Sharapov's) formula, which has been used to analyse the measured optical spectra of correlated electron systems with a non-constant density of states at finite temperatures. The pseudogap and EBSD functions should be temperature dependent to simulate the Fermi liquid-like behaviour of underdoped cuprate systems observed in optical studies. Therefore, the observed Fermi liquid-like behaviour can be understood by considering the combined contribution from the T-dependent EBSD function and the T-dependent pseudogap. We also obtained the optical conductivity spectra from the optical scattering rates and analyzed them to investigate intriguing electronic properties. We expect that our results will aid in understanding the Fermi liquid-like optical response in the pseudogap phase and in revealing the microscopic pairing mechanism for superconductivity in cuprates.