Fermi surface topology and magneto-quantum oscillations for under-doped YBCO with hopping anisotropy

Abstract

We investigate a chiral d-density wave (CDDW) mean field Hamiltonian in momentum space, which also includes the in-plane hopping anisotropy parameter e, for the under-doped YBCO to explore the possibility of quantum oscillations (QO) in the specific heat in the presence of a changing magnetic field (B). The inclusion is motivated by the experimental signature of nematic order found in cuprates in neutron scattering experiments of Hinkov et al. (see Ref.[10]). We obtain the Fermi surface topologies, without and with magnetic field background, including the elastic scattering by impurities in the investigation within t-matrix approximation framework. The topologies are found to be distinct from the Fermi arc picture: we find that the minimally gapped portion of Fermi surface forms closed loops (hole pockets) and not arcs. However, some k-points of the electron pockets are found to be associated with the negative density of state values (see Ref.[28]) when B and e are zero; for non-zero B and e slightly positive these pockets acquire positive DOS values. The latter thus seems to justify the inclusion of the hopping anisotropy in the Hamiltonian. We relate these findings to QO in specific heat. We show that the origin of the main frequency of the oscillations is the electron pocket of the Fermi surface at a magnetic field B equal to 50 T.