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Effects of spin fluctuations on the tunneling spectroscopy in high-Tc superconductors

Ching-Long Wu, Chung-Yu Mou, Darwin Chang

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.63.172503 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We investigate the effects of spin fluctuations on the tunneling spectra of the normal-metal–superconductor junction. In the high junction resistance limit, the dip/hump structure observed in ARPES data for the high Tc superconductors is reproduced in a random-phase approximation treatment of the t−t′−J model. It is shown that the dip/hump structure weakens as doping increases as reflected in the data. In the other limit, we predict that the zero bias Andreev peak can coexist with the dip/hump structure. Furthermore, the c-axis tunneling spectra is found to be very similar to recent scanning tunnel microscope data once these fluctuations are included.

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