Pseudogap and Central Peak in the Emery Model

TL;DR

This paper investigates the pseudogap and central peak phenomena in the Emery model, incorporating antiferromagnetic correlations to explain ARPES data and quasiparticle dispersions in cuprate superconductors.

Contribution

It introduces a strong-coupling regime in the Emery model with AF correlations, explaining experimental features like the flat dispersion near the vH point and the two-peaked structure below the Fermi level.

Findings

Fermi surfaces and ARPES energy scales are simultaneously fitted.

The large flat dispersion region is due to a non-dispersive central peak.

Predicted two-peaked structure below Fermi level matches experiments.

Abstract

The effect of antiferromagnetic (AF) correlations is studied in the framework of the three-band (Emery) model, with respect to experiments in BSCCO. We study the pseudogap regime with a central peak. Detailed dispersions of quasiparticle peaks show that one can simultaneously fit Fermi surfaces and ARPES leading-edge energy scales. The band parameter regime is a strong-coupling one: marked renormalization of the copper-oxygen overlap, making it smaller than the oxygen-oxygen overlap, while the copper-oxygen energy splitting is the largest of the three. The same regime was found previously in a zeroth-order fit of Fermi surfaces. The inclusion of AF correlations in a weak-coupling approach resolves the only qualitative discrepancy of the zeroth-order mean-field slave-boson calculation with experiment: it is argued that the observed large flat region of the dispersion around the vH point is due to the very non-dispersive central peak in the X-M direction. The sudden increase of the experimental one-particle dispersion in the X-M direction is explained by the quasiparticle strength shifting to the upper wing of the magnetic pseudogap, as one moves further away from the X (van Hove) point. Near it, the lower wing is predicted to be observed in the X-M direction, in addition to the narrow central peak, giving rise to a two-peaked structure below the Fermi level, as found experimentally.