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Origin of the pseudogap and its influence on superconducting state

When holes move in the background of strong antiferromagnetic correlation, two effects with different spatial scale emerge, leading to a much reduced hopping integral with an additional phase factor. An effective Hamiltonian is then proposed to investigate the underdoped cuprates. We argue that the pseudogap is the consequence of dressed hole moving in the antiferromagnetic background and has nothing to do with the superconductivity. The momentum distributions of the gap are qualitatively consistent with the recent ARPES measurements both in the pseudogap and superconducting state. Two thermal qualities are further calculated to justify our model. A two-gap scenario is concluded to describe the relation between the two gaps.