Published September 1, 1992 | Version v1
Journal article

Boson linewidth in high-temperature superconductors

  • 1. Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 (United States)
  • 2. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 (United States)
  • 3. Center for Materials Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
  • 4. Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 (United States)

Description

We have considered boson exchange models of high-temperature superconductors which use Eliashberg theory and in which the bare bosons have sharp spectral features. In particular, we have calculated the boson linewidth due to the interaction with the charge carriers. We find for a recent model of Arnold, Mueller, and Swihart that the width of the 10-meV peak in their α2F is consistent with a broadened boson peak. However, for a weak-coupling model with the boson peak in the eV range, the interaction causes a broadening in the boson peak that is comparable to or larger than the energy of the peak

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
46
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 5861-5863.
ISSN
0163-1829
CODEN
PRBMDO