%0 Journal Article
%T Optical studies of charge dynamics in the optimally-doped Bi2212 and the non-superconducting cobaltate single crystals
%A J. J. Tu
%A C. C. Homes
%A G. D. Gu
%A D. N. Basov
%A S. M. Loureiro
%A R. J. Cava
%A M. Strongin
%J Physics
%D 2001
%I arXiv
%X An analysis of the frequency-dependent scattering rate reveals signatures of the superconducting gap as well as the pseudogap in high-T_c cuprates. These features can be identified in the temperature-dependent spectral function W(omega), inverted from the optical data of the optimally-doped Bi2212 using an experimentally unambiguous method that shows the behavior of both the maxima and minima in the spectral function.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104208v1