Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 177001 (2006) [4 pages]Effects of Pairing Potential Scattering on Fourier-Transformed Inelastic Tunneling Spectra of High-Tc Cuprate Superconductors with Bosonic ModesReceived 16 August 2005; revised 9 August 2006; published 23 October 2006 Recent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experimentally observed strong gap inhomogeneity in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ (BSCCO). We argue that disorder in the pair potential underlies the gap inhomogeneity, and investigate its role in the Fourier-transformed inelastic tunneling spectra as revealed in the STM. We find that the random pair potential induces unique q-space patterns in the local density of states (LDOS) of a d-wave superconductor. We consider the effects of electron coupling to various bosonic modes and find the pattern of LDOS modulation due to coupling to the B1g phonon mode to be consistent with the one observed in the inelastic electron tunnneling STM experiment in BSCCO. These results suggest strong electron-lattice coupling as an essential part of the superconducting state in high-Tc materials. © 2006 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.177001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.177001
PACS:
74.25.Jb, 73.20.Hb, 74.20.−z, 74.50.+r
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