On properly integrating the electronic Raman and optical infra-red spectra of HTSC cuprate materials

Abstract

New electronic Raman and I.R. spectroscopy results from optimally and overdoped high temperature superconducting (HTSC) cuprate systems are interpreted in terms of the negative-U, boson-fermion crossover model. Distinction is made between those features which follow the condensate gap, 2Delta(p), and those that are set by the local-pair binding energy, cursive U(p). The critical role of doping level psubc = 0.185 is highlighted in conjunction with the matter of developing quasiparticle incoherence, making connection here with recent transport and related results. E//c IR results in magnetic fields parallel and perpendicular to c prove particularly illuminating. The general scheme developed continues to embrace all experimental data very satisfactorily.

23 pages, 4 figures

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