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In-Plane Spectral Weight Shift of Charge Carriers in YBa2Cu3O6.9

A. V. Boris, N. N. Kovaleva, O. V. Dolgov, T. Holden, C. T. Lin, B. Keimer, C. Bernhard

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0405052

Abstract

The temperature dependent redistribution of the spectral weight of the CuO2 plane derived conduction band of the YBa2Cu3O6.9 high temperature superconductor (Tc = 92.7 K) was studied with wide-band (from 0.01 to 5.6 eV) spectroscopic ellipsometry. A superconductivity - induced transfer of the spectral weight involving a high energy scale in excess of 1 eV was observed. Correspondingly, the charge carrier spectral weight was shown to decrease in the superconducting state. The ellipsometric data also provide detailed information about the evolution of the optical self-energy in the normal and superconducting states.

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