Abstract
We introduce a simple phenomenological form for the self-energy which allows us to extract important information from angle-resolved photoemission data on the high- superconductor for binding energies of order the spectral gap. First, we find a rapid suppression of the single particle scattering rate below for all doping levels. Second, we find that in the overdoped materials the gap at all k points on the Fermi surface has significant temperature dependence and vanishes near In contrast, in the underdoped samples such behavior is found only at k points close to the diagonal. Near , is essentially independent in the underdoped samples. The filling-in of the pseudogap with increasing is described by a broadening proportional to which is naturally explained by pairing correlations above
- Received 3 February 1998
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.57.R11093
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