Intrinsic temperature-dependent evolutions in the electron-boson spectral density obtained from optical data

Abstract

We investigate temperature smearing effects on the electron-boson spectral density function ($I^2\chi (\omega )$) obtained from optical data using a maximum entropy inversion method. We start with two simple model input $I^2\chi (\omega )$, calculate the optical scattering rates at selected temperatures using the model input spectral density functions and a generalized Allen's formula, then extract back $I^2\chi (\omega )$ at each temperature from the calculated optical scattering rate using the maximum entropy method (MEM) which has been used for analysis of optical data of high-temperature superconductors including cuprates, and finally compare the resulting $I^2\chi (\omega )$ with the input ones. From this approach we find that the inversion process can recover the input $I^2\chi (\omega )$ almost perfectly when the quality of fits is good enough and also temperature smearing (or thermal broadening) effects appear in the $I^2\chi (\omega )$ when the quality of fits is not good enough. We found that the coupling constant and the logarithmically averaged frequency are robust to the temperature smearing effects and/or the quality of fits. We use these robust properties of the two quantities as criterions to check whether experimental data have intrinsic temperature-dependent evolutions or not. We carefully apply the MEM to two material systems (one optimally doped and the other underdoped cuprates) and conclude that the $I^2\chi (\omega )$ extracted from the optical data contain intrinsic temperature-dependent evolutions.

29 pages, 8 figures

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