title: Charge-fluctuation contribution to the Raman response in superconducting cuprates.
abstract: We calculate the Raman response contribution due to soft collective modes, finding a strong dependence on the photon polarizations and on the characteristic wave vectors of the modes. We compare our results with recent Raman spectroscopy experiments in underdoped cuprates, La2-xSrxCuO4 and (Y1.97Ca0.3)Ba2CuO6.05, where anomalous low-energy peaks are observed, which soften upon lowering the temperature. We show that the specific dependence on doping and on photon polarizations of these peaks can naturally arise from charge collective excitations at finite wavelength.
authors.affiliation: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, Unità Roma 1 and SMC Center, and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Roma, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Caprara
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Di Castro
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grilli
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Suppa