Nodal/Antinodal Dichotomy and the Energy-Gaps of a doped Mott Insulator

Marcello Civelli

Institut Laue Langevin, Theory Group, Grenoble, France

Using Cellular Dynamical Mean Field Theory with exact diagonalization as the impurity solver we study the superconducting state of the hole-doped two-dimensional Hubbard model. In the underdoped regime, the formalism leads to a natural decomposition of the photoemission energy-gap into two components. The first gap, stemming from the anomalous self-energy, dominates near the nodes and decreases with decreasing doping. The second gap has an additional contribution from the normal self-energy inherited from the normal-state pseudo-gap. It is dominant near the antinodes and increases as the Mott insulating phase is approached.

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