Low energy excitations in cuprate high temperature superconductors : angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy studies
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The mechanism of superconductivity in the cuprate high temperature superconductors is an enduring problem in condensed matter physics, and a detailed experimental phenomenology is a crucial starting point for microscopic understanding. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measures electronic structure in momentum-space. Low-energy excitations in the cuprates, including the superconducting gap, are known to be anisotropic in momentum space, so the momentum resolution afforded by ARPES is key to understanding the physics and uncovering the mechanism. In this dissertation, I present experiments which pursue the cuprate superconductivity problem from several angles: understanding electron-boson coupling which may be involved in mediating superconductivity (Chapters 6 and 7 and Appendix B), understanding the momentum-space structure of the normal state pseudogap (Chapter 5 and Appendix A), understanding how superconductivity coexists with the pseudogap and other phases (Chapters 3 and 4). Much of this work took advantage of a recent development in ARPES technology, using a UV laser as a light source, which allows experiments to be performed with superior energy and momentum resolution. These experiments highlight the wealth of information that is available in ARPES data, including dispersions, scattering rates, and spectral gaps, and they demonstrate the importance of exploring these variables comprehensively as a function of temperature, doping, and momentum.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Vishik, Inna |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Applied Physics. |
| Primary advisor | Shen, Zhi-Xun |
| Thesis advisor | Shen, Zhi-Xun |
| Thesis advisor | Devereaux, Thomas Peter, 1964- |
| Thesis advisor | Kivelson, Steven |
| Advisor | Devereaux, Thomas Peter, 1964- |
| Advisor | Kivelson, Steven |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Inna Vishik. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Applied Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2013. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Inna Mikhailovna Vishik
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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