K Takenaka, K Nakada, A Osuka, S Horii, H Ikuta… - Physical Review Letters, 2000 - APS
The optical spectra of PrBa 2 Cu 4 O 8 show large in-plane anisotropy. For the a polarization
(E⊥ chain), the spectrum is characterized by a gap of 1.4 eV, indicating the charge-transfer …