H. Ding et al., ANGLE-RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY STUDY OF THE SUPERCONDUCTING GAP ANISOTROPY IN BI2SR2CACU2O8+X, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, 54(14), 1996, pp. 9678-9681
We report measurements of the momentum dependence of die superconducti
ng gap in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x with angle-resolved photoemission spectrosco
py using a dense sampling of the Brillouin zone in the vicinity of the
Fermi surface. In the Y quadrant of the zone, where there are no comp
lications from ghost bands caused by the superlattice, we find a gap f
unction consistent within error bats to the form cos(k(x))-cos(k(y)) e
xpected for a d-wave order parameter. Similar results are found in the
X quadrant with the photon polarization chosen to enhance main band e
mission over that due to ghost bands.