Low energy electronic structure of optimally doped YBa2Cu3O7-d is investigated using laser-excited angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. The surface state and the CuO chain band that usually overlap the CuO2 plane derived bands are not detected, thus enabling a clear observation of the bulk superconducting state. The observed bilayer splitting of the Fermi surface is ~0.08 angstrom^{-1} along the (0,0)-(pi,pi) direction, significantly larger than Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d. The kink structure of the band dispersion reflecting the renormalization effect at ~60 meV shows up similarly as in other hole-doped cuprates. The momentum-dependence of the superconducting gap shows d_{x^2-y^2}-wave like amplitude, but exhibits a nonzero minimum of ~12 meV along the (0,0)-(pi,pi) direction. Possible origins of such an unexpected "nodeless" gap behavior are discussed.
@article{arxiv.0811.0479,
title = {Superconducting electronic state in optimally doped YBa2Cu3O7-d observed with laser-excited angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy},
author = {M. Okawa and K. Ishizaka and H. Uchiyama and H. Tadatomo and T. Masui and S. Tajima and X. -Y. Wang and C. -T. Chen and S. Watanabe and A. Chainani and T. Saitoh and S. Shin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.0479},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, 10 figures; revised version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B