Distribution of spectral weight in a system with disordered stripes

The “band structure” of a disordered stripe array is computed and compared, at a qualitative level, to angle-resolved photoemission experiments on cuprate high-temperature superconductors. The low-energy states are found to be strongly localized transverse to the stripe direction, so the electron dynamics is strictly one dimensional (along the stripe). Despite this, aspects of the two dimensional band-structure Fermi surface are still vividly apparent.