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Fermi surface of the pseudogap state in underdoped cuprate superconductors
Suchitra Sebastian  1@  , Gil Lonzarich  1  , Neil Harrison  2  , Fedor Balakirev  2  , Brad Ramshaw  2  , Moaz Altarawneh  2  , Chuck Mielke  2  , Jon Betts  2  , Ruixing Liang  3  , Doug Bonn  3  , Walter Hardy  3  
1 : University of Cambridge  -  Website
2 : National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos
3 : University of British Columbia

The electronic structure of the pseudogap state in the cuprates is crucial to a comprehensive understanding of high temperature superconductivity. I will present angle-resolved quantum oscillation and magnetoresistance measurements in underdoped YBCO, that resolve the electronic structure of the pseudogap as comprising a nodal twofold staggered Fermi surface in which the rotational symmetry has been transformed. This Fermi surface geometry can explain key signatures of the pseudogap such as gapless fermionic quasiparticles seen by photoemission to lie on arcs near the nodal Brillouin zone regions, a negative Hall effect and strongly enhanced interlayer transport anisotropy, and has a natural origin in a staggered biaxial charge density wave instability.


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