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Electronic anisotropies revealed by detwinned ARPES measurements of FeSe

Authors :
Watson, Matthew D
Haghighirad, Amir A.
Rhodes, Luke C.
Hoesch, Moritz
Kim, Timur K.
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

We report high resolution ARPES measurements of detwinned FeSe single crystals. The application of a mechanical strain is used to promote the volume fraction of one of the orthorhombic domains in the sample, which we estimate to be 80$\%$ detwinned. While the full structure of the electron pockets consisting of two crossed ellipses may be observed in the tetragonal phase at temperatures above 90~K, we find that remarkably, only one peanut-shaped electron pocket oriented along the longer $a$ axis contributes to the ARPES measurement at low temperatures in the nematic phase, with the expected pocket along $b$ being not observed. Thus the low temperature Fermi surface of FeSe as experimentally determined by ARPES consists of one elliptical hole pocket and one orthogonally-oriented peanut-shaped electron pocket. Our measurements clarify the long-standing controversies over the interpretation of ARPES measurements of FeSe.

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....359c4785804529d862dc81a8de6b0a19