Charge modulation driven Fermi surface of Pb-Bi2201

TL;DR

This study investigates how charge modulations influence the Fermi surface in Pb-doped Bi2201 superconductors, revealing new Fermi surface features and charge density modulations linked to dopant ordering.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed analysis of charge density modulations and their impact on the Fermi surface in Pb-doped Bi2201, combining ARPES, STM, and diffraction data.

Findings

Identification of additional Fermi surface features in Pb-Bi2201

Observation of (1x32) and (6x6) charge density modulations

Simulation of Fermi surface based on charge modulations

Abstract

It is well known that the (1x5) superstructure of Bi cuprate superconductors will be suppressed due to optimum doping with Pb. Nevertheless, a Fermi surface map of (Pb,La)-Bi2201 (Pb = 0.4 and La = 0.4) determined by angular resolved photoemission (ARPES) revealed additional Fermi surface features. Low energy electron diffraction and X-ray diffraction of these samples showed no sign of any superstructure. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), on the other hand, revealed two distinct modulations of the charge density, one of (1x32) and a second of (6x6) periodicity. The wave vectors of both modulations have been extracted and used to simulate the corresponding Fermi surface, which is compared with the experimental one. The origin of these modulations is discussed in terms of dopant ordering.