Excitation energy map of high-energy dispersion anomalies in cuprates

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Contributors

  • D. S. Inosov - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • R. Schuster - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • A. A. Kordyuk - , National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Author)
  • J. Fink - , Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy (Author)
  • S. V. Borisenko - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • V. B. Zabolotnyy - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • D. V. Evtushinsky - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • M. Knupfer - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • B. Buechner - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • R. Follath - , Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy (Author)
  • H. Berger - , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) (Author)

Abstract

The anomalous high-energy dispersion of the conductance band in the high-T(c) superconductor Bi(Pb)(2)Sr(2)CaCu(2)O(8+delta) (Pb-Bi2212) has been extensively mapped by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy as a function of excitation energy in the range from 34 to 116 eV. Two distinctive types of dispersion behavior are observed around 0.6 eV binding energy, which alternate as a function of photon energy. The continuous transitions observed between the two kinds of behavior near 50, 70, and 90 eV photon energies allow one to exclude the possibility that they originate from the interplay between the bonding and antibonding bands. The effects of three-dimensionality can also be excluded as a possible origin of the excitation energy dependence, as the large period of the alterations is inconsistent with the lattice constant in this material. We therefore confirm that the strong photon energy dependence of the high-energy dispersion in cuprates originates mainly from the photoemission matrix element that suppresses the photocurrent in the center of the Brillouin zone.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number212504
Number of pages3
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume77
Issue number21
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2008
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

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Scopus 45249120773

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