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- Electron quasiparticles simplify many-body physics in solids but face skepticism in high-temperature superconductors like cuprates.
- A new framework of electron fractionalization has emerged, aiming to replace Fermi-liquid theory for systems exhibiting fractional quantum Hall effect and Mott insulating behavior; however, its effectiveness for cuprates remains uncertain.
- Research reveals that excitons in optimally doped BiSrCaCuO are significantly enhanced by superconductivity, suggesting these high-energy excitons play a role in superconducting mechanisms, providing constraints for pseudogap theories and supporting a two-component fermion model for better understanding.
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Electron quasiparticles play a crucial role in simplifying the description of many-body physics in solids with surprising success. Conventional Landau's Fermi-liquid and quasiparticle theories for high-temperature superconducting cuprates have, however, received skepticism from various angles. A path-breaking framework of electron fractionalization has been established to replace the Fermi-liquid theory for systems that show the fractional quantum Hall effect and the Mott insulating phenomena; whether it captures the essential physics of the pseudogap and superconducting phases of cuprates is still an open issue. Here, we show that excitonic excitation of optimally doped BiSrCaCuO with energy far above the superconducting-gap energy scale, about 1 eV or even higher, is unusually enhanced by the onset of superconductivity. Our finding proves the involvement of such high-energy excitons in superconductivity. Therefore, the observed enhancement in the spectral weight of excitons imposes a crucial constraint on theories for the pseudogap and superconducting mechanisms. A simple two-component fermion model which embodies electron fractionalization in the pseudogap state provides a possible mechanism of this enhancement, pointing toward a novel route for understanding the electronic structure of superconducting cuprates.
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