Electron-phonon coupling in high-temperature cuprate superconductors determined from electron relaxation rates |
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Authors: | Gadermaier C Alexandrov A S Kabanov V V Kusar P Mertelj T Yao X Manzoni C Brida D Cerullo G Mihailovic D |
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Affiliation: | Department of Complex Matter, Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. christoph.gadermaier@ijs.si |
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Abstract: | We determined electronic relaxation times via pump-probe optical spectroscopy using sub-15 fs pulses for the normal state of two different cuprate superconductors. We show that the primary relaxation process is the electron-phonon interaction and extract a measure of its strength, the second moment of the Eliashberg function λ[ω2] = 800 ± 200 meV2 for La(1.85)Sr(0.15)CuO4 and λ[ω2] = 400 ± 100 meV2 for YBa(2)Cu(3)O(6.5). These values suggest a possible fundamental role of the electron-phonon interaction in the superconducting pairing mechanism. |
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