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NATURE PHYSICS
Volume 3, Issue 3, Pages 168-171Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nphys538
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The properties of condensed matter are determined by single-particle and collective excitations and their mutual interactions. These quantum-mechanical excitations are characterized by an energy, E, and a momentum, hk, which are related through their dispersion, E-k. The coupling of excitations may lead to abrupt changes ( kinks) in the slope of the dispersion. Kinks thus carry important information about the internal degrees of freedom of a many-body system and their effective interaction. Here, we report a novel, purely electronic mechanism leading to kinks, which is not related to any coupling of excitations. Namely, kinks are predicted for any strongly correlated metal whose spectral function shows a three-peak structure with well-separated Hubbard subbands and a central peak, as observed, for example, in transition-metal oxides. These kinks can appear at energies as high as a few hundred millielectron volts, as found in recent spectroscopy experiments on high-temperature superconductors(1-4) and other transition-metal oxides(5-8). Our theory determines not only the position of the kinks but also the range of validity of Fermi-liquid theory.
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