@article{ISI:000296667600016,
 abstract = {We describe here a minimal theory of tight-binding electrons moving on
the square planar Cu lattice of the hole-doped cuprates and mixed
quantum mechanically with their own Cooper pairs. The superconductivity
occurring at the transition temperature T-c is the long-range, d-wave
symmetry phase coherence of these Cooper pairs. Fluctuations,
necessarily associated with incipient long-range superconducting order,
have a generic large-distance behavior near T-c. We calculate the
spectral density of electrons coupled to such Cooper-pair fluctuations
and show that features observed in angle resolved photoemission
spectroscopy (ARPES) experiments on different cuprates above T-c as a
function of doping and temperature emerge naturally in this description.
These include ``Fermi arcs″ with temperature-dependent length and an
antinodal pseudogap, which fills up linearly as the temperature
increases toward the pseudogap temperature. Our results agree
quantitatively with experiment. Below T-c, the effects of nonzero
superfluid density and thermal fluctuations are calculated and compared
successfully with some recent ARPES experiments, especially the observed
bending or deviation of the superconducting gap from the canonical
d-wave form.},
 article-number = {144525},
 author = {Banerjee, Sumilan and Ramakrishnan, T. V. and Dasgupta, Chandan},
 doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.84.144525},
 issn = {1098-0121},
 journal = {PHYSICAL REVIEW B},
 month = {OCT 31},
 number = {14},
 orcid-numbers = {Dasgupta, Chandan/0000-0002-0302-1881},
 title = {Effect of pairing fluctuations on low-energy electronic spectra in
cuprate superconductors},
 unique-id = {ISI:000296667600016},
 volume = {84},
 year = {2011}
}