Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2003-04-11
Physics
Condensed Matter
6 pages, 4 figures, Submitted to PRB
Scientific paper
We show that the ARPES spectra for emission from the bonding as well as the antibonding Fermi surface sheet in Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_8$ (Bi2212) possess remarkable site selectivity properties in that the emission for photon energies less than 25 eV is dominated by $p \to d$ excitations from just the O-sites in the CuO$_2$ planes. There is little contribution from Cu electrons to the ARPES intensity, even though the initial states at the Fermi energy contain an admixture of Cu-$d$ and O-$p$ electrons. We analyze the origin of this effect by considering the nature of the associated dipole matrix element in detail and find that various possible transition channels (other than $p \to d$ on O-sites) are effectively blocked by either the fact that the related radial cross section is small and/or a lack of available final states. Our prediction that ARPES can preferentially sample Cu or O states by tuning the photon energy suggests novel possibilities for exploiting energy dependent ARPES spectra for probing initial state characters in the cuprates.
Bansil Arun
Lindroos Mats
Sahrakorpi S.
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