Electron spectrum in high-temperature cuprate superconductors

A microscopic theory for the electron spectrum of the CuO2 plane within an effective p-d Hubbard model is proposed. The Dyson equation for the single-electron Green's function in terms of the Hubbard operators is derived and solved self-consistently for the self-energy evaluated in the noncrossing approximation. Electron scattering on spin fluctuations induced by the kinematic interaction is described by a dynamical spin susceptibility with a continuous spectrum. The doping and temperature dependence of electron dispersions, spectral functions, the Fermi surface, and the coupling constant lambda are studied in the hole-doped case. At low doping, an arc-type Fermi surface and a pseudogap in the spectral function close to the Brillouin zone boundary are observed.