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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 98, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.067004
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A universal high energy anomaly in the single particle spectral function is reported in three different families of high temperature superconductors by using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. As we follow the dispersing peak of the spectral function from the Fermi energy to the valence band complex, we find dispersion anomalies marked by two distinctive high energy scales, E-1 approximate to 0.38 eV and E-2 approximate to 0.8 eV. E-1 marks the energy above which the dispersion splits into two branches. One is a continuation of the near parabolic dispersion, albeit with reduced spectral weight, and reaches the bottom of the band at the Gamma point at approximate to 0.5 eV. The other is given by a peak in the momentum space, nearly independent of energy between E-1 and E-2. Above E-2, a bandlike dispersion reemerges. We conjecture that these two energies mark the disintegration of the low-energy quasiparticles into a spinon and holon branch in the high T-c cuprates.
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