ANGLE-RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION ON UNTWINNED YBA2CU3O6.95 - II - DETERMINATION OF FERMI SURFACES

Citation
Mc. Schabel et al., ANGLE-RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION ON UNTWINNED YBA2CU3O6.95 - II - DETERMINATION OF FERMI SURFACES, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, 57(10), 1998, pp. 6107-6115
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Condensed Matter
ISSN journal
01631829
Volume
57
Issue
10
Year of publication
1998
Pages
6107 - 6115
Database
ISI
SICI code
0163-1829(1998)57:10<6107:APOUY->2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
We present complete Fermi-surface mappings of an untwinned single crys tal of YBa2Cu3O7-delta in two distinct photon polarization geometries. Various methods for Fermi-surface determination with angle-resolved p hotoelectron spectroscopy are discussed and a technique based on the m omentum space density of states is developed and applied. The data rev eal the presence of two CuO2 plane-derived Fermi-surface pockets, alon g with weak evidence for a single chain sheet, in agreement with earli er work on twinned crystals and ab initio predictions, but show no sig n of the expected ''stick'' pocket centered at (pi,pi). In contrast wi th earlier work on Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta we see no evidence for ''shadow bands'' in optimally doped YBa2Cu3O7-delta supporting the contention that these features arise from structural rather than magnetic correla tions.