Determining the Fermi Surface from Arpes Integrals
K. Matho
Centre de Recherches sur les Très Basses Températures, Laboratoire associéŕ l'Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS, B.P. 166, 38042 Grenoble cedex 9, France
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ARPES integrals are related to the momentum distribution nk. In case of a metal, points kF on the Fermi surface were identified by: (i) a change of sign in the temperature variation of the ARPES integrals or (ii) maximum slope in its angular variation. These criteria are based on the assumption of particle-hole symmetry in the vicinity of the Fermi edge. Here, we check (i) and (ii) on the level of the momentum distribution, for an electronic structure with most of its incoherent weight below the Fermi edge. Evaluating nk(T) up to T ≈ Δ*, a Fermi liquid coherence energy, we find: criterion (i) remains stable, while (ii) deviates from kF ∝ m*T/kF. Published data on the hole doped t-J model are examined in this light.
DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.97.201
PACS numbers: 71.10.Ay, 71.18.+y, 79.60.-i