Tuesday, March 6, 2012

1203.0588 (Stefano Dal Conte et al.)

Disentangling the electronic and phononic glue in a high-Tc
superconductor
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Stefano Dal Conte, Claudio Giannetti, Giacomo Coslovich, Federico Cilento, Davide Bossini, Tadesse Abebaw, Franceco Banfi, Gabriele Ferrini, Hiroshi Eisaki, Martin Greven, Andrea Damascelli, Dirk van der Marel, F. Parmigiani
Unveiling the nature of the bosonic excitations that mediate the formation of Cooper pairs is a key issue for understanding unconventional superconductivity. A fundamen- tal step toward this goal would be to identify the relative weight of the electronic and phononic contributions to the overall frequency (\Omega) dependent bosonic function, \Pi(\Omega). We perform optical spectroscopy on Bi2212 crystals with simultaneous time- and frequency-resolution; this technique allows us to disentangle the electronic and phononic contributions by their different temporal evolution. The strength of the interaction ({\lambda}~1.1) with the electronic excitations and their spectral distribution fully account for the high critical temperature of the superconducting phase transition.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0588

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