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
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.