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

Abstract

Fine questions our interpretation of unidirectional-stripes over 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 in actuality composed of locally unidirectional modulations of the charge density, consistent with our original conclusions.

Response to original comment: B.V. Fine, Science 351, 235 (2016) (arxiv version at http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00888)