Strange ARPES line shapes and ECFL

Ever since high temperature superconductors have been known to scientists, they have been quite baffling. The central question is whether the standard textbook theories that we know and love already are applicable to these fascinating materials. The general sense is that those standard theories must be augmented to a great extent, if not replaced completely. Why? It is because of many puzzling experimental results that defy a proper understanding. ARPES results are among the most mysterious!

As the above advertisement says, we might be onto solving this conundrum!

Links:

• March meeting 2012, Invited talkand my presentation.

• A news article about our work at the Stanford Synchrtron Lightsource.

• News article at UC Santa Cruz.

• The article can be accessed from here or here.