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Effect of an Electron-phonon Interaction on the One-electron Spectral Weight of a d-wave Superconductor A. W. Sandvik,1, 2, ∗ D. J. Scalapino,2, † and N.E. Bickers3, ‡ 1 ˚ Department of Physics,Abo Akademi University, Porthansgatan 3, FIN-20500 Turku, Finland 2Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530 3 3 0 Department of Physics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0484 0 (Dated: February 2, 2008) 2 Here we analyze the effects of an electron-phonon interaction on the one-electron spectral weight p A(k, ω) of a dx2−y2 superconductor. We study the case of an Einstein phonon mode with various e momentum-dependent electron-phonon couplings and compare the structure produced in A(k, ω) S with that obtained from coupling to the magnetic π-resonant mode. We find that if the strength of the interactions are adjusted to give the same renormalization at the nodal point, the differences in 7 A(k, ω) are generally small but possibly observable near k = (π, 0). ] n PACS numbers: 79.60, 74.72.-h, 74.25.Kc o c r- I. INTRODUCTION proved sample quality have allowed angle-resolved pho- p toemission spectroscopy (ARPES) to probe details of the u energy and