Robustness of acousticlike plasmons across the phase diagram of high-Tc cuprate superconductors
Author: Zinni, Luciano
Affiliation: Faculty of Exact Sciences, Engineering and Surveying, National University of Rosario
Type: Contributed Talk
Session: Cuprates V
Date and Time: 24.07.2026, 09:05 - 09:25
Layered two-dimensional electron systems exhibit both the conventional optical plasmon and acoustic branches, with the latter dispersing to zero energy at the Brillouin-zone center. In the layered cuprate La2-xSrxCuO4, resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) has detected corresponding acousticlike plasmons in a low-energy regime comparable to that of other collective excitations associated with distinct regions of the cuprate phase diagram. This overlap in energy scale raises the question of whether the acousticlike plasmons are significantly influenced by phase-specific electronic phenomena, including the pseudogap, charge and spin order, superconductivity, and strange-metal behavior. Here we show that a single parameter set of the layered t-J-V model, which incorporates strong correlations and the long-range Coulomb interaction V, consistently describes the acousticlike plasmon dispersion across all currently available RIXS data from the underdoped to the heavily overdoped regime. This transferability of a single parameter set exceeds that of earlier theoretical descriptions and supports a picture in which strong correlations persist into the heavily overdoped regime, while the collective plasmon mode exhibits only limited sensitivity to the phase-specific electronic phenomena that distinguish different regions of the phase diagram.