Fermi-surface pockets in magnetic underdoped cuprates from first
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Using an innovative first-principles band theory enabling the exploration of Mott-insulating magnetic cuprates, we study the Fermi surface of underdoped Y\(_{1-x}\)Ca\(_x\)Ba\(_2\)Cu\(_3\)O\(_6\) in a selection of magnetically ordered and polaronic states. All phases exhibit qualitatively similar, hole-like nodal-point small pockets. Their properties (area, masses, mass sign) only partially match those extracted from recent quantum-oscillation experiments. Ab initio calculations, therefore, do not straightforwardly support a magnetic origin of quantum oscillations.

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Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of the cuprate superconductors

Zhi-Xun Shen, Zahid Hussain, Andrea Damascelli (2002)

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