Electronic Raman scattering in YBa2 Cu3 O7sand other superconducting cuprates

T. Strohm and M. Cardona
Phys. Rev. B 55, 12725 – Published 1 May 1997
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Abstract

Superconductivity-induced structures in the electronic Raman spectra of high-Tc superconductors are computed using the results of ab initio local-density approximation linear muffin-tin-orbital three-dimensional band-structure calculations via numerical integrations of the mass fluctuations, either in the whole three-dimensional Brillouin zone or limiting the integrations to the Fermi surface. The results of both calculations are rather similar, the Brillouin-zone integration yielding additional weak structures related to the extended van Hove singularities. Similar calculations have been performed for the normal state of these high-Tc cuprates. Polarization configurations have been investigated and the results have been compared to experimental spectra. The assumption of a simple dx2y2-like gap function allows us to explain a number of experimental features but is hard to reconcile with the relative positions of the A1g and B1g peaks.

    DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.55.12725

    ©1997 American Physical Society

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    T. Strohm and M. Cardona

    • Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany

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    Vol. 55, Iss. 18 — 1 May 1997

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