Unmasking the Origin of Kinks in the Photoemission Spectra of Cuprate Superconductors

Li, Zhenglu; Wu, Meng; Chan, Yang-Hao; Louie, Steven G.

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.126.146401

Unmasking the Origin of Kinks in the Photoemission Spectra of Cuprate Superconductors

Journal Article · Thu Apr 08 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.126.146401· OSTI ID:1785487

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Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); University of California at Berkeley
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

The origin of a ubiquitous bosonic coupling feature in the photoemission spectra of high- T_c cuprates, an energy-momentum dispersion “kink” observed at ~70 meV binding energy, remains a two-decade-old mystery. Understanding this phenomenon requires an accurate description of the coupling between the electron and some collective modes. In this work, we report ab initio calculations based on G W perturbation theory and show that correlation-enhanced electron-phonon interaction in cuprates gives rise to the strong kinks, which not only explains quantitatively the observations but provides new understanding of experiments. Our results reveal it is the electron density of states being the predominant factor in determining the doping dependence of the kink size, manifesting the multiband nature of the cuprates, as opposed to the prevalent belief of it being a measure of the mode-coupling strength.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1785487

Report Number(s):: DOE-LBL--11231

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 14 Vol. 126; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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