Extremely correlated Fermi-liquid description of normal-state ARPES in cuprates

The normal-state single particle spectral function of the high temperature superconducting cuprates, measured by the angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES), has been considered both anomalous and crucial to understand. Here, we report an unprecedented success of the new extremely correlated Fermi liquid theory by one of us [B. S. Shastry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 056403 (2011)] to describe both laser and conventional synchrotron ARPES data (nodal cut at optimal doping) on Bi(2)Sr(2)CaCu(2)O(8+δ) and synchrotron data on La(1.85)Sr(0.15)CuO(4). It fits all data sets with the same physical parameter values, satisfies the particle sum rule and successfully addresses two widely discussed kink anomalies in the dispersion.     

Extremely correlated Fermi liquids

We present the theory of an extremely correlated Fermi liquid with U→∞. This liquid has an underlying auxiliary Fermi liquid Green's function that is further caparisoned by extreme correlations. The theory leads to two parallel hierarchies of equations that permit iterative approximations in a certain parameter. Preliminary results for the spectral functions display a broad background and a distinct T dependent left skew. An important energy scale Δ(k[over →],x) emerges as the average inelasticity of the FL Green's function, and influences the photoemission spectra profoundly. A duality is identified wherein a loss of coherence of the ECFL results from an excessively sharp FL.