Spectral Properties of the Attractive Hubbard Model

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Deviations from Fermi liquid behavior are well documented in the normal state of the cuprate superconductors, and some of these differences are possibly related to pre-formed pairs appearing at temperatures above Tc. In order to test these ideas we have investigated the attractive Hubbard model within a self-consistent, conserving ladder approximation. In this version of the theory, no feature is present which can be related to the pseudo gap found in the high-Tc materials. Further, the interactions between two-particle bound states change the physics of the superconducting instability in a profound fashion, and lead to a completely different phenomenology that one predicts based on the non-self-consistent version of the same theory.