Electronic excitation spectra of the Emery model

We calculate the photoemission and inverse photoemission spectra of holes in copper-oxygen planes, the characteristic structural unit of high-temperature superconductors. The computations are based on the extended Hubbard or Emery model in the limit of infinitely strong Coulomb repulsion Ud on copper sites. In order to evaluate the corresponding one-particle correlation functions the projection technique is applied, which is especially suitable for strongly correlated systems. Thereby the hole dynamics is restricted to a subspace of relevant operators, within which it can be treated exactly. In contrast to independent-particle approximations the excitation spectra show an energy gap at half-filling, which disappears when the system is doped with additional holes. Besides the insulator-to-metal transition the strong correlations lead also to a significant shift of spectral weight to states close to the Fermi energy when the hole concentration increases. Our results are in good agreement with the ones of exact diagonalization studies of the (CuO2)4 cluster with periodic boundary conditions