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Phys. Rev. B 70, 220503 (2004) [4 pages]

Failure of scattering interference in the pseudogap state of cuprate superconductors

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S. Misra *, M. Vershinin, P. Phillips, and A. Yazdani
Department of Physics and Fredrick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA

Rapid Communication Received 1 July 2004; published 8 December 2004

We calculate scattering interference patterns for various electronic states proposed for the pseudogap regime of the cuprate superconductors. The scattering interference models all produce patterns whose wavelength changes as a function of energy, in contradiction to the energy-independent wavelength seen by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments in the pseudogap state. This suggests that the patterns seen in STM local density of states measurements are not due to scattering interference, but are rather the result of some form of ordering.


©2004 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.70.220503
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.220503
PACS: 74.25.Jb, 74.20.De, 74.72.−h

* Electronic address: misra@uiuc.edu

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