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Title: Angle-resolved photoemission with circularly polarized light in the nodal mirror plane of underdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ superconductor

Journal Article · · Applied Physics Letters
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4966994 · OSTI ID:1345725
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  1. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  2. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (United States)
  3. Hiroshima Univ., Hiroshima (Japan)
  4. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
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Unraveling the nature of pseudogap phase in high-temperature superconductors holds the key to understanding their superconducting mechanisms and potentially broadening their applications via enhancement of their superconducting transition temperatures. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) experiments using circularly polarized light have been proposed to detect possible symmetry breaking state in the pseudogap phase of cuprates. Here, the presence (absence) of an electronic order which breaks mirror symmetry of the crystal would in principle induce a finite (zero) circular dichroism in photoemission. Different orders breaking reflection symmetries about different mirror planes can also be distinguished by the momentum dependence of the measured circular dichroism.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
OSTI ID:
1345725
Report Number(s):
BNL--113432-2017-JA; KC0201060
Journal Information:
Applied Physics Letters, Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters Journal Issue: 18 Vol. 109; ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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