Angle-resolved photoemission spectromicroscopy on IrTe2 reveals evolution of mesoscopic striped domains across its first order phase transition at about 280 K. The striped texture of the domains is characterized by a herringbone arrangement of the electronic anisotropy axes. Under further cooling down to 47 K, the striped domains evolve into trijunction domains with the electronic anisotropy in three directions. Each domain harbors quasi one-dimensional surface bands forming Fermi arcs with peculiar spin polarization. The Fermi arc corresponds to an edge state of the two-dimensional bulk electronic states truncated at the surface, indicating an interesting interplay between the symmetry breaking and the surface electronic states.
@article{arxiv.2112.05930,
title = {Domain dependent Fermi arcs observed in a striped phase dichalcogenide},
author = {T. Mizokawa and A. Barinov and V. Kandyba and A. Giampietri and R. Matsumoto and Y. Okamoto and K. Takubo and K. Miyamoto and T. Okuda and S. Pyon and H. Ishii and K. Kudo and M. Nohara and N. L. Saini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.05930},
year = {2021}
}