Dispersion anomalies in cuprate superconductors
Andrey Chubukov
Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742-4111, USA
I will argue that the shape of the dispersion
along the nodal and antinodal directions in the cuprates
can be understood as a consequence of the
interaction of the electrons with collective spin excitations.
In the normal state, the dispersion
displays a crossover at an energy where the decay into spin fluctuations
becomes relevant. In the superconducting state, the antinodal dispersion
is strongly affected by the (π, π) spin resonance and displays
an S-shape whose magnitude scales with the resonance intensity.
For nodal fermions, relevant spin excitations do not have resonance.
As a consequence, the $S-$shape becomes a kink,
and superconductivity does not affect the dispersion as strongly.
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