Response to Comment on "Broken translational and rotational symmetry via charge stripe order in underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+y"

R Comin; R Sutarto; E H da Silva Neto; L Chauviere; R Liang; W N Hardy; D A Bonn; F He; G A Sawatzky; A Damascelli

doi:10.1126/science.aac4778

Response to Comment on "Broken translational and rotational symmetry via charge stripe order in underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+y"

Science. 2016 Jan 15;351(6270):235. doi: 10.1126/science.aac4778.

Authors

R Comin¹, R Sutarto², E H da Silva Neto³, L Chauviere⁴, R Liang⁵, W N Hardy⁵, D A Bonn⁵, F He², G A Sawatzky⁵, A Damascelli¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada. Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada. [email protected] [email protected].
² Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 2V3, Canada.
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada. Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada. Quantum Materials Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8, Canada. Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada. Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada. Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
⁵ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada. Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada.

PMID: 26816371
DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4778

Abstract

Fine questions our interpretation of unidirectional stripes over a bidirectional checkerboard and illustrates his criticism by simulating a momentum space structure consistent with our data and corresponding to a checkerboard-looking real space density. Here, we use a local rotational-symmetry analysis to demonstrate that the simulated image is actually composed of locally unidirectional modulations of the charge density, consistent with our original conclusions.

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