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External losses in photoemission from strongly correlated quasi two-dimensional solids

arXiv:cond-mat/0101105 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.64.115109

Abstract

New expressions are derived for photoemission, which allow experimental electron energy loss data to be used for estimating losses in photoemission. The derivation builds on new results for dielectric response and mean free paths of strongly correlated systems of two dimensional layers. Numerical evaluations are made for (Bi2212) by using a parametrized loss function. The mean free path for Bi2212 is calculated and found to be substantially larger than obtained by Norman et al in a recent paper. The photocurrent is expressed as the convolution of the intrinsic approximation for the current from a specific 2D layer with an effective loss function. The observed current is the sum of such currents from the first few layers. The photo electron from a specific layer is found to excite low energy acoustic plasmon modes due to the coupling between the layers. These modes give rise to an asymmetric power law broadening of the photo current an isolated two dimensional layer would have given. We define an asymmetry index where a contribution from a Luttinger lineshape is additive to the contribution from our broadening function. Already the loss effect considered here gives broadening comparable to what is observed experimentally. A superconductor with a gapped loss function is predicted to have a peak-dip-hump lineshape similar to what has been observed, and with the same qualitative behavior as predicted in the recent work by Campuzano et al.

17 pages, 10 figures

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