Evidence for Quasiparticle Decay in Photoemission from Underdoped Cuprates

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8 February 1998

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Abstract

I argue that the ``gap'' recently observed at the Brillouin zone face of cuprate superconductors in photoemission by Marshall et al [Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 4841 (1996)] and Ding et al [Nature 382, 54 (1996)] is evidence for the decay of the injected hole into a spinon-holon pair.

Keywords

QUASIPARTICLE DECAY
UNDERDOPED CUPRATES
SUPERCONDUCTORS
BRILLOUIN ZONE
PHOTOEMISSION
SPINON HOLON

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Published version: Physical Review Letters, 79 (9), 1726.

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